Memory

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

• Encoding

• Storage

• Rehearsal

• Retrieval

Remembering a specific event in your life, such as the first day at a new school, is an example of which type of memory?

• Iconic memory

• Procedural memory

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

Having trouble remembering recently learned material due to similar information learned earlier in life is ____________________, and having trouble remembering past information due to similar information learned more recently is ________________________.

• Retroactive interference; Proactive interference

• Repression; Reconstruction

• Reconstruction; Repression

• Proactive interference; Retroactive interference

Increased likelihood of remembering items in the beginning of a list is known as the ____________________, and increased likelihood of remembering items at the end of a list is known as ____________________.

• Recency effect; Primacy effect

• Primacy effect; Recency effect

• Tertiary effect; Secondary effect

• Secondary effect, Tertiary effect

Primacy effect occurs due to the items being in one's ________________ and Recency effect occurs due to the items being in one's __________________.

• Long-term memory; Short-term memory

• Sensory bin; Working memory

• Working memory; Sensory bin

• Short-term memory; Long-term memory

Memory that occurs due to the associated meaning of something, as opposed to the sound or vision of it, is known as

• Chunking

• Long-term potentiation

• Semantic encoding

• Imagery

The inability to remember new information, most likely due to damage to the medial temporal lobe, is known as

• Retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Dissociative amnesia

• Dissociative fugue

Memory associated with how to do things, such as walking, talking, and riding a bike, is called

• Episodic memory

• Iconic memory

• Declarative memory

• Procedural memory

What is required in order for sensory memory to be transferred to short-term memory?

• Perception

• Attention

• Differentiation

• Encoding

The ability to remember the first and last steps of instructions is an example of

• Serial position effect

• Long-term potentiation

• Priming

• Framing