Learning and Memory

An example of an explicit memory would be

• Recalling how to ride a bike
• Jumping back in the shower when you hear a toilet flush
• Reciting the names of the presidents in order
• Remembering how to swim after many years

Explicit memory is to ________ as implicit memory is to ________.

• Long Term; Short Term
• Hippocampus ; Cerebellum
• Skill Memory; Fact Memory

Superior memory for rap lyrics that include the most rhymes best illustrates the value of: =

• Sensory Encoding
• Acoustic Encoding
• Semantic Encoding
• Visual Imagery

After looking up a phone number, Jim calls it, then forgets. The number was stored in his

• Short-Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Visual Memory
• Echoic Memory

Rephrasing a new definition in order to remember its meaning is

• Echoic Encoding
• Semantic Encoding
• Visual Encoding
• Auditory Encoding

The process of filing information into your memory is...

• Chunking
• Encoding
• Retrieving
• Priming

Our long-term memory capacity is

• In direct correlation to our age
• Varies greatly by gender
• Essentially limitless
• In direct correlation to our age

A memory from our own personal life is a

• Echoic Memory
• Prospective Memory
• Episodic Memory
• Semantic Memory

What neurotransmitter has been linked to improved memory formation?

• Serotonin
• Dopamine
• Acetylcholine
• Norepinephrine

Stress and the hormones it releases into our bloodstream...

• Disrupts memory formation
• Causes anterograde amnesia
• Increases the likelihood of the Misinformation Effect
• Enhances memory formation