Memory Quiz

What is long-term memory? 

• Final stage of mutli-store memory model, providing the lasting retention of information skills
• Memory that lasts a long time 
• memory influenced by short-term memory 
• A type of memory 

What are three key processes of memory? 

• schemas, short-term memory, long-term memory 
• retrograde memory, anterograde memory, sensory memory
• sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory 
• working memory, short-term memory, long-term memory 

Tip of the tongue phenomenon 

• saying "it's on the tip of my tongue" 
• failing to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent
• being confident about a answer and being able to answer correctly 
• not being able to recall words of similar meaning and form 

Mnemonic devices 

• a special coding in the brain 
• sounds 
• devices that harm memory 
• techniques a person can use to improve an ability to remember something 

Short-term memory 

• ability to remember and process information at the same time. A small amount of information is held for a small amount of time. 
• a lot of information that is held for a long amount of time 
• memorization of events 
• information that does not quickly disappear

Motivated forgetting 

• is forgetting that only deals with the conscious memory 
• is a theorized psychological behavior in which people may forget unwanted memories, either consciously or unconsciously
• is forgetting that only deals with the unconscious memory 
• is forgetting that is influenced by the tip of the tongue phenomenon 

What is relearning? 

• learning information that you don't already know 
• learning that does not require studying 
• a way of measuring retention by measuring how much faster one relearns material that has been previously learned and then forgotten
  
• learning that does not involve retention 

Rehearsal is 

• cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a possible way of learning and remembering it
• something that has no remembrance 
• doing something one time and having it mastered 
• a source-monitoring error

Elaborative rehearsal is 

• repetition of a word over and over again 
• a technique that does not involve the long-term memory
• a memory technique that involves thinking about the meaning of the term to be remembered, as opposed to simply repeating the word to yourself over and over
• a technique that does not involve the short-term memory 

Maintenance rehearsal is 

•  a type of rehearsal proposed by Craik and Lockhart (1972) in their Levels of Processing Model of memory. Maintenance rehearsal involves rote repetition of an item's auditory representation. 
• a technique that leads to stronger and more durable memories 
• a technique that does not affect knowing 
• the same as elaborative rehearsal