Cognition and Intelligence Vocabulary Quiz

Preserves brief sensory impression for only a fraction of a second.

• Sensory Memory
• Working Memory
• Short-Term Memory
• Long-Term Memory

Preserves recently  perceived events or experiences for less than a minute w/o rehearsal.

• Sensory memory
• Working memory
• Long-term memory

Organizing pieces of info into smaller units.

• Rehearsal
• Chunking
• Perserverance
• Encoding

Holds about 7 items at a time

• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Sensory memory

Memory of something that WAS deliberately learned.

• Implicit memory
• Explicit memory
• Retrieval cues
• Acoustic memory

A memory of something that was NOT deliberately learned.

• Implicit memory
• Explicit memory
• Retrieval cues
• Acoustic memory

Problem-solving procedures or formulas that guarantee a correct outcome

• Schema
• Script
• Algorithm
• Heuristic

Someone who cannot encode new memories has...

• Anterograde amnesia

• Long-term potentiation

• Retroactive Interference

• Proactive Interference

If I want to find sriracha sauce in the grocery store, I could check the most obvious places (Asian section, sauce section, etc...). This "rule of thumb" thinking is called using

• An algorithm

• A heuristic

A memory from our own personal life is a

• Echoic Memory
• Prospective Memory
• Episodic Memory
• Semantic Memory