U3AOS2 Memory SAC revision

The processing of information into the memory system.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• automatic processing

The first stage of memory that involves information bombarding us every second.  

• sensory memory
• short-term memory
• automatic processing
• effortful processing

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.

• chunking
• mnemonic
• relearning
• recall

Our memory for skills, such as riding a bike.

• implicit memory
• explicit memory
• echoic memory
• iconic memory

Our memory for facts, such as psych vocabulary.

• explicit memory
• implicit memory
• priming
• next-in-line effect

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

The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

• explicit   
• short-term   
• implicit   
• sensory

A memory from our own personal life is a

• Echoic Memory
• Prospective Memory
• Episodic Memory
• Semantic Memory

If you relate new information to material that you already know, you are practicing

• elaborative rehearsal.

• chunking.

• the Method of Loci.

• the spacing effect.

Remembering the first and last items on a list, better than than middle ones is due to

• the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

• redintegration

• the serial position effect

• the pseudo-memory effect