Chapter 11 Memory

After suffering an accident and landing in the hospital, Hiroko has no memory of her hospital stay, which suggest she developed _____ amnesia.

• Retroactive

• Retrograde

• Proactive

• Anterograde

An essential difference between semantic and episodic memories is that

• Semantic memories are the same for everyone; episodic are personal experiences

• Semantic memories are personal experiences; episodic are the same for everyone

• You can verbalise a semantic memory but it is harder to put an episodic memory into words

• You can verbalise an episodic memory but it is harder to put a semantic memory into words

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.

Memory can be defined as the process of

• encoding, storing and retrieving information.

• storing of information

• processing of information

• none of the above

Mnemonics are.....

• strategies for forgetting
• strategies for improving memory
• strategies for improving life
• strategies for chunking

This memory represents our memory of experiences and specific events in time in a serial form. Which memory is this

• Long term
• Semantic
• Episodic
• Flashbulb

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

Which of the following memories happen with conscious awareness?

• Implicit Memories
• Episodic Memories
• Procedural Memories
• Repressive Memories

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

Which of the following has a tendency to be the hardest way to learn something?

• When positive transfer occurs.
• Using shallow processing.
• Using elaborative rehearsal
• Using deep processing.