Chapter 10 Memory

If you recite the rhyme (song or acronym)“Thirty days has September, April, June, and November,” to remember the number of days in each month, you are using a(n)

• mnemonic device

• schema

• reconstructive process of memory

• proactive amnesia

Which of the following would be a strategy to improve memory?

• Recognition memory

• State-dependent memory

• Tip of the tongue phenomenon

• Elaborative rehearsal

Most people forget things because of the normal processes of

• repression and blocking

• chunking and schema

• interference and storage decay

• maintenance and elaborative rehearsal

Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material is called

• relearning

• recall

• recognition

• chunking

What happens to information in your brain after it has been encoded?

• It goes through the storage process.

• It it ready for retrieval

• It gets divided into schemas

• moved from short-term memory to sensory memory

The brain part which processes declarative (semantic and episodic) memories is the

• hypothalamus

• thalamus

• hippocampus

• pons

Short-term memory has a limited capacity to about

• One item

• Two items

• Three items

• Seven items

The first stage of memory is

• Long-term memory

• sensory memory

• short-term memory

• context-dependent memory

The phenomenon of recalling events encoded while in a particular state of consciousness is called

• state-dependent memory

• iconic memory

• echoic memory

• semantic memory

Which of the following is the correct sequence of the memory process?

• implicit, semantic, and episodic

• maintenance and elaborative rehearsals.

• encode, storage, and retrieve

• sensory, short-term, and long-term