Chapter 7 Section 3

__________________ memory is a type of sensory register that holds visual memories.

• iconic

• chuncking

• short term

• interference

The method of ______________ organizes items into familiar units so that they can be remembered more easily.

• iconic

• chuncking

• short term

• interference

Working memory is another name for ______________________ memory.

• iconic

• chuncking

• short term

• interference

______________ is the process in which information in short-term memory is lost when new information appears.

• iconic

• chuncking

• short term

• interference

The first item in a series is more easily remembered because of the _____________________________________.

• primacy effect

• eidetic imagery

• recency effect

• echoic memory

Ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time

• primacy effect

• eidetic imagery

• recency effect

• echoic memory

Tendency to recall the last items in a series

• primacy effect

• eidetic imagery

• recency effect

• echoic memory

Sensory register that holds mental traces of sounds

• primacy effect

• eidetic imagery

• recency effect

• echoic memory

The first stage of memory is

• long term memory

• context dependent memory

• short term memory

• sensory memory

The average person can hold in short term memory a list of

• eight items

• nine items

• five items

• seven items