Psych - Chapter 8 - Memory

The process of getting information into memory is called?

• Priming

• Chunking

• Encoding

• Registering

Information from our five senses in our fleeting _____ is encoded here.

• repressed memory

• sensory memory

• flashbulb memory

• long-term memory

Your consciously activated but limited-capacity memory is called ______ memory.

• implicit

• short-term (working)

• mood-congruent

• explicit

Flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ______ memory.

• long-term

• short-term

• iconic

• echoic

To remember how to spell the word rhinoceros, Sam spells the word aloud 30X. She using a technique known as

• priming.

• rehearsal.

• chunking.

• the serial position effect.

After hearing a list of items, people tend to recall the first and last items easier than the middle of the list.

• automatic processing

• the spacing effect

• primacy effect

• The serial position effect.

Mnemonic devices such as the peg-word system make effective use of

• visual imager.

• the serial position effect.

• flashbulb memory.

• implicit memory

Your ability to avoid trouble by remembering what somebody said when you spaced out is because of what type of memory?

• Iconic

• Echoic

• Flashbulb

• Implicit

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

• Short-term (working)

• implicit

• sensory

• flashbulb

Rehearsal is to encoding as retrieval cues are to

• relearning.

• chunking.

• the spacing effect.

• remembering.