Weekly Quiz 1/22

According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves

• retrieval

• storage

• rehearsal

• encoding

• transfer

Chuck recalls the day last summer when he fell off his bicycle and scraped his knee. This is an example of

• iconic memory

• procedural memory

• semantic memory

• episodic memory

• short-term memory

Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away less than a second later. When she tries to immediately remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?

• iconic

• procedural

• delcarative

• implicit

• echoic

Memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bicycle, are classified as

• iconic

• semantic

• echoic

• procedural

• declarative

Which of the following is an example of the serial position effect?

• remembering the most important assignment you have to complete for school tomorrow

• remembering the skills you learned early in life, such as walking

• remembering the beginning and end of your grocery store list, but not the items in the middle

• remembering the names co-workers you met at your new job

• remembering where you left your cell phone when you cannot find it

Which process transfers information from sensory memory to short-term memory?

• attention

• cognition

• differentiation

• perception

• sensation

When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, which of the following will most likely occur?

• The information will remain indefinitely in short-term memory.

• There will be no transfer of the information to long-term memory.

• The sensory register will stop processing the information.

• Retrieval of the information from long-term memory will be easier.

• Information already in long-term memory will be integrated with the incoming information.

Which of the following is likely to be encoded automatically?

• the side-angle-side geometry theorem

• the names of the last 10 U.S. presidents

• what you ate for breakfast this morning

• the names of your cousins

• the license plate number of your new car

Which of the following is most likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words?

• thinking about how the words relate to your own life

• practicing the words for a single extended period

• breaking up the practice into several relatively short sessions

• noticing where in a sentence the words appear

• focusing on the number of vowels and consonants in the words

Which of the following produces the best long-term recall in studying for a test?

• mass practice

• distributed practice

• shallow processing

• sensory memory storage

• parallel processing