Memory and Thought- Psych

Which memory task involves identifying objects encountered before?

• Recognition

• Recall

• Relearning

• Repression

Organization of itmes into familiar or manageable units

• Amnesia

• Grouping

• Chunking

• Eidetic

Fading away of memory

• Amnesia

• Decay

• Interference

• 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

Our long-term memory capacity is

• In direct correlation to our age

• Varies greatly by gender

• Essentially limitless

A memory from our own personal life is a

• Echoic Memory

• Prospective Memory

• Episodic Memory

• Semantic Memory

______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

• Recall
• Amnesia
• Storage
• Potential

What is it called when new information impairs the 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