Psych1001 Week 4 Memory and Language Quiz

The first stage of memory that involves information bombarding us every second.  

• sensory memory
• short-term memory
• automatic processing
• effortful processing

Information can be held in this storage bank for around 30 seconds with out rehearsal.

• short-term memory
• long-term memory
• sensory memory
• visual encoding

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.

• chunking
• mnemonic
• relearning
• recall

Mental traces of sounds that last a couple seconds

• Echoic Memory

• Eidetic Memory

• Iconic Memory

Taking brief photographic images for your memory

• Echoic Memory

• Eidetic Memory

• Iconic Memory

Fading away of a memory over time

• Interference

• Decay

• Amnesia

• Storage

Severe memory loss caused by injury to the brain

• Decay

• Amnesia

• Interference

• Chunking

Memory can be defined as the process of

• encoding, storing and retrieving information.

• storing of information

• processing of information

• none of the above

What does 'semantics' mean?

• The study of speech sounds
• Understanding words and their meanings
• The grammatical rules of a language
• Talking using only gestures or signs

According to behavioristic theory of language development:

• ability to speak and understand the language of children is obtained through stimulation from the environment.

• child plays an important role in language acquisition.

• None of the above

• Both a and b