Memory Quiz

The tendency to recall the last few items in a series is the ___________ effect.

• butterfly

• sensory

• primacy

• recency

The gradual erosion of a memory is known as ____________.

• rehearsal

• storage decay

• interference

• recognition

Any technique that helps you remember something.

• proactive interference

• storage decay

• mnemonic device

• sensory memory

This type of episodic memory is very clear and vivid, usually an emotionally significant event.

• flashbulb

• semantic

• procedural

• intellectual

This is a memory in which information is more easily retrieved when in the same physiological or emotional state as when the memory was originally learned.

• context-dependent

• state-dependent

• semantic

• episodic

A type of memory that includes general knowledge and information/facts.

• flashbulb

• semantic

• long-term

• sensory

One process of memory in which stored information is located and brought into conscious awareness.

• encoding

• storage

• retrieval

• short-term memory

Organizing information into familiar or manageable units, can be used to increase the amount of information one can hold in short-term memory.

• retrieval

• maintenance rehearsal

• context-dependent memory

• chunking

The tendency to recall the first few items in a series is known as the __________ effect.

• interference

• primacy

• sensory

• recency

The type of memory that consists of skills and procedures one has learned.

• semantic

• flashbulb

• short-term

• procedural