Unit 7 Cognition

Which is the best term for mental activities associated with remembering, thinking, and knowing?

• Concepts

• Cognition

• Insight

• Intuition

Working memory is most active during which portion of the information processing model?

• Short-term Memory

• Retrieval

• Encoding

• Long-term Memory

Your memory of which of the following is an example of implicit memory?

• What you had fro dinner yesterday

• That George Washington was our first president

• Which way to turn the key to start the engine

• How exciting it was to get the best Christmas gift

Which of the following is most likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words?

• Think about how words relate to your own life

• Noticing where in a sentence the words appear

• Practice the words for a single extended period

• Focus on the number of vowels and consonants in the words

Jaden who is 12 was asked to remember his kindergarten teachers name what retention did he use?

• Storage

• Relearning

• Encoding

• Recall

Judith visits a home after 10 years from her childhood, many memories come back, this is?

• Recall

• Priming

• Explicit Memory

• Flashbulb Memory

What part of the brain in the limbic system is the "save" button for explicit memories?

• Cerebellum

• Hippocampus

• Basal Ganglia

• Amygdala

Who stated that the stronger the emotional experience makes for stronger reliable memories?

• Sigmund Freud

• George Miller

• James McGaugh

• Alan Baddeley

What two parts of the brain are the most involved in explicit memory?

• Frontal Lobe and Basal Ganglia

• Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia

• Amygdala and Frontal Lobe

• Frontal Lobe and Hippocampus

Which of the following is an example of the primacy effect?

• Remembering the most important assignment for school tomorrow

• Remembering skills you learned earlier in life

• Remembering the names of the first 2 coworkers at your new job

• Remembering to move clocks back for daylight savings time