Unit 5: Check for Understanding #1

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called __ memory.

• flashbulb

• echoic

• iconic

• semantic

For a moment after hearing his dog's high-pitched bark, Mr. Silvers has a vivid auditory impression of the dog's yelp. His experience most clearly illustrates __ memory.

• flashbulb

• echoic

• iconic

• semantic

"The magical number seven, plus or minus two" refers to the storage capacity of ___ memory.

• short-term

• long-term

• implicit

• explicit

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

• frontal lobes and basal ganglia

• amygdala and hippocampus

• amygdala and cerebellum

• frontal lobes and hippocampus

Which of the following is an example of implicit memory?

• remembering names of people you met that day

• riding your bicycle while talking to a friend about something that happened earlier?

• vividly recalling an accident you were in

• answering questions on a history test

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

• Remembering the sills you learned early in life, such as walking

• Remembering the last thing your English teacher talked about in class last session, but nothing from earlier in the class period

• Remembering the most important assignment you have to complete for school on Monday.

• Remembering the names of the first two co-workers you met on the first day of the job

Which of the following is an example of anterograde amnesia?

• Robert has no memories of the first ten years of his life

• Maria struggles in school because she consistently misremembers what her teachers said in class.

• Louis can remember his past, but has not been able to form new memories since his brain infection two years ago.

• William has lost his memory of the three weeks before he had brain surgery.

Max is a senior in high school and has been in the school library countless times over the years. It's a large room with 9 free-standing pillars that support the ceiling. When asked how many pillars there are, Max isn't certain and says he thinks there are 6. What memory concept does this example illustrate?

• Encoding failure

• Storage decay

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference.