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Week 7

The passage discusses the three phases of human memory: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Sensory memory is instantaneous and fleeting, lasting less than a second. Short-term memory can hold information for around 20 seconds as long as it is actively being used or repeated. Long-term memory has an almost limitless capacity and can store memories for years.

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Week 7

The passage discusses the three phases of human memory: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Sensory memory is instantaneous and fleeting, lasting less than a second. Short-term memory can hold information for around 20 seconds as long as it is actively being used or repeated. Long-term memory has an almost limitless capacity and can store memories for years.

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READING COMPREHENSION

Passage 1

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the
long-term memory. This division of the memory into phases is based on the time span of the memory.
Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image of memory that enters your mind
fleetingly; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the
information enters the short-term memory.
Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you
are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as
long as you keep repeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long-
term memory.
Long-term memory is the almost limitless memory tank that can hold ideas and images for
years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it
there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.

Questions
1. The best title for this passage would be __________.
(A) The difference between Sensory and Short-Term Memory
(B) How Long It Takes to Memorize
(C) How to Classify the Stages of Human Memory
(D) The Time Span of Human Phases

2. The three phases of memory discussed in this passage are differentiated according to
(A) location in the brain
(B) the period of time it takes to remember something
(C) how the senses are involved in the memory
(D) how long the memory lasts

3. According to the passage, which type of memory is the shortest?


(A) Sensory memory
(B) Active memory
(C) Short-term memory
(D) Long-term memory

4. The word “fleetingly” (line 4) is closest in meaning to which of the following?


(A) Easily
(B) Haphazardly
(C) Temporarily
(D) Fundamentally

5. According to the passage, when will information stay in your short-term memory?
(A) For as long as twenty minutes
(B) As long as it is being used
(C) Ngugi wa After you have repeated it many times
(D) When it has moved into long-term memory

6. According to the passage, what is the capacity of the long-term memory?


(A) Limited
(B) Infinite
(C) Equal to the capacity of short-term memory
(D) Very large

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