memory review

Visual sensory memory is referred to as

• iconic memory

• echoic memory

• photomemory

• semantic memory

Which of the following is the best example of flashbulb memory?

• suddenly remembering to buy bread while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store.

• recalling the name of someone from high school while looking at his or her yearbook snapshot

• remembering to make an important phone call

• remembering what you were doing on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers.

After finding her old combination lock, Janice can't remember its combination because she keeps confusing it with the combination of her new lock. She is experiencing

• proactive interference.

• retroactive interference.

• encoding failure.

• storage failure.

Your teacher asked you what you did this weekend. You state "I went to the Yankees game and a Broadway play." This is an example of ________ memory.

• semantic

• episodic

• procedural

• personal

A way to increase the amount of info in memory by grouping it into larger, familiar units

• Chunking
• Consolidating
• Encoding
• Organization

When given a list, people are likely to remember the first items on the list. This reflects the concept of:

• distinctiveness

• primacy

• recency

• context-dependence

The three stages of the memory process (in the correct order) are:

• Encoding, retrieval, storage
• Visual encoding, acoustic encoding, retrieval
• Encoding, storage, retrieval
• Encoding, recognition, retrieval

Memory of facts and concepts is called:

• Semantic Memory

• Implicit Memory

• Explicit Memory

• Episodic Memory

Remembering how to perform actions is an example of:

• Episodic memory
• Procedural memory
• Semantic memory
• Declarative memory

The three types of long term memory are:

• Episodic, visual, procedural
• Visual, semantic, procedural
• Recognition, acoustic, episodic
• Episodic, semantic, procedural