Cognition Review

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

The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

• explicit   
• short-term   
• implicit   
• sensory

Immediate, initial recording of encoding info. Includes echoic and Iconic Memory

• Short Term Memory

• Sensory Memory

• Long Term Memory

• Working Memory

An image that is flashed before us for only a fraction of a second is captured by our

• Short term memory
• Echoic Memory
• Iconic memory
• Long term memory

Our long-term memory capacity is

• In direct correlation to our age
• Varies greatly by gender
• Essentially limitless
• In direct correlation to our age

Encoding that requires attention and conscious awareness is called

• shallow processing
• effortful processing
• automatic processing 
• implicit processing

Chunking refers to 

• getting information into memory through the use of visual imagery
• the organization of information into meaningful units
• the unconscious encoding of incidental information 
• the tendency to recognize names we can't recall

Procedural memories for well-learned skills such as how to ride a bicycle are typically ________memories. 

• working
• implicit
• sensory
• explicit

What does the encoding process do?

• Gain access to memory stored

• information is stored permanently or temporary

• transfer information to long-term memory

• memory is forgotten