Psych Cognition Review

Fading away of memory

• Amnesia
• Decay
• Interference 
• Repression

Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called

• Generic Memory
• Procedural Memory
• Iconic Memory
• Flashbulb Memory

Organization of itmes into familiar or manageable units

• Amnesia
• Grouping
• Chunking
• Eidetic

Which memory task involves identifying objects encountered before?

• Recognition
• Recall
• Relearning
• Repression

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

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

• Chunking
• Encoding
• Retrieving
• Priming

______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

• Recall
• Amnesia
• Storage
• Potential

What is it called when new information impairsthe retention of previously learned information?

• Retention
• Retroactive Interference
• Proactiveinterference
• Retrieval Failure

What memory system is made up of chronological recollections of personal memory?

• Declarative
• Episodic
• Semantic
• Nondeclarative

the persistence of learning over timethrough the storage and retrieval of information

• Encoding
• Memory
• Storage
• Relearning