Mods 31-35

The information processing model refers to

• encoding, storing, retrieving

• receiving, encoding, storing

• sensory, echoic, iconic

• sensory, short-term, long-term

Explicit memories are also known as

• nondeclarative memories

• flashbuld memories

• semantics memories

• declarative memories

What is the capacity of short term memory (aka working memory)?

• 3 bits of information

• 7 bits of information

• 10 bits of information

• 14 bits of information

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically is known as

• peg words

• hierarchies

• mnemonics

• chunking

If you "deeply process" a word you encode is semantically which means you understand the

• meaning of the word

• visual of the word

• letters in the word

• capitalization of the word

Which is an example of a flashbulb memory?

• what you ate for lunch last week

• getting accepted into the college of your dreams!

• submitting an FRQ in AP Psych

• going to the grocery story

According to this theory, your current mood will match memories that you recall (ex: if you are currently in a bad mood, you will recall bad memories)

• state dependent memory

• mood congruent theory

• serial position effect

• recency effect

This type of amnesia is when you can't remember NEW information; and this type of amnesia is when you can't remember OLD information

• infantile; anterograde

• infantile; retrograde

• anterograde; retrograde

• retrograde; anterograde

Knowledge of driving in the US gets in the way of remembering how to drive in a new country is an example of

• proactive interference

• retroactive interference

• anterograde amnesia

• retrograde amnesia

If I show you a car accident and ask "how fast were the two cars going when they hit each other?" and then ask another student "how fast were the two cars going when they smashed into each other?", I'll likely get 2 different responses. This is likely due to

• source amnesia

• misinformation effect

• infantile amnesia

• retrieval failure