Psych - Memory-Forgetting

Creed comes up with an acrostic first, then tries to figure out what each letter stands for. That's a very backward attempt at creating a _______ .

• heuristic

• mnemonic

• method of loci

• mental set

If Jim had erased Dwight's memory, he would have targeted his ___________ .

• hypothalamus

• hippocampus

• corpus callosum

• pons

the retention of encoded information over time. 

• memory 
•  storage
• imagery 
• recall

a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test. 

• recall 
• memory 
• rehearsal
• recognition

the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage. 

• rehearsal
• retrieval
• relearning
• recall

the process of getting information out of memory storage. 

• recall 
• rehearsal
• priming
• retrieval

the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system. 

• echoic memory
• sensory memory
• working memory
• short term memory

the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. 

• proactive interference 
• retroactive interference
• serial position effect 
• spacing effect

organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. 

• relearning 
• chunking 
• encoding
• priming

the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response. 

•  memory
• encoding
•  priming
• chunking