Psychology Memory Cognition Final

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

Memory can be defined as the process of 

• encoding, storing and retrieving information.
• stroing of information
• processing of information
• none of the above

Short Term Memory is also known as 

• flashbulb memory
• semantic memory
• sensory memory
• working memory

žA clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

• echoic memory
• flashbulb memory
• implicit memory
• explicit memory

The processing of information into the memory system.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• automatic processing

The retention (saving) of encoded material over time.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• rehearsal

The process of getting the information back out of memory storage.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• Next-in-line-effect

You remember things better at the beginning of a list. This demonstrates:

• recency effect
• primacy effect
• elaborative rehearsal

Which type of experience are you having when you have a temporary inability to remember something you know, accompanied by the feeling that it is just beyond conscious thought?

• mnemonics
• recall
• state dependent memory
• tip-of-the-tongue

Motivated forgetting that occurs when a person consciously tries to forget something

• repression
• retrograde amnesia 
• suppression
• anterograde amnesia