Memory and Cognition

______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

• Recall
• Amnesia
• Storage
• Potential

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

The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as 

• the serial position effect
• implicit memory
• priming
• state-dependent memory

"Continuing to rehearse even after obtaining the information" is called..

• Rehearsal
• Maintenance Rehearsal
• Over-Learning
• Elaborate Rehearsal

"Repetition or practice of the information" is called

• Rehearsal
• Over-Learning
• Maintenance Rehearsal 
• Elaborate Rehearsal

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

This is the first place an input is encoded

• Sensory Memory

• Short Term Memory

• Working Memory

• Long Term Memory

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming
• chunking
• encoding
• storing

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

• roughly equal to seven units of information
• enhanced through hypnosis
• essentially unlimited
• typically much greater in young children than in adults