memory

The idea that information needs to be converted into a form that is meaningful to the person learning it is referred to as

• Encoding

• Storage

• Recall

• Consolidation

is also known as working memory

• sensory memory

• primacy

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

Early estimates of working-memory capacity relied on the digit-span task. The data indicate working memory capacity to be ________ items.

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A participant who is asked to recall a series of numbers chooses to think about the numbers as though they were years (e.g., 1, 9, 9, 7 becomes “The year I turned 16”). The participant is organizing information into the memory unit known as a(n)

• sentence.

• chunk.

• image.

• package.

A flashbulb memory is an example of a

• generic memory

• episodic memory

• procedural memory

• working memory

semantic memory if when you

• make a picture of your memory

• hear the sequence of sounds associated with the memry

• relate it to something else

• you chunk things to remember them better

3. All of the following are mentioned as places in which memories are stored EXCEPT the:

• A) STM

• B) long term memory

• C) sensory storage area

• D) maintenance area

If you want to remember someone's name and use the memory technique of repeating it over and over, you would be using ____ to keep the name in _____

• Mnemonics; Long-term memory

• Maintenance rehearsal; Short-term memory

• Elaborative rehearsal; Short-term memory

• Selective attention; Sensory memory

the fact that I can do my times tables without really thinking about it is an example of

• episodic memory

• generic memory

• procedural memory

• short term memory

you often remember the last thing someone said because of

• interference

• primacy

• recency

• chunking