Chapter 7 Study guide

is the ability to retain information over time

• memory

• chunking

• dancing

• reherarsing

Where are memories stored in the brain? choose 2 answers

• teeth

• sensory memory

• amygdala

• hippocampus

This is the first process of placing information in the memory

• incoming information

• encoding

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

the process of placing encoded information into permanent mental state is called

• storage

• sensory memory

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

The process of getting information from the Short-term memory to the Long term memory is

• primacy effect

• visual memory

• sensory memory

• retrieval

visual and auditory memory are part of:

• long-term memory

• working memory

• sensory memory

• recency

memory that holds an image of what we have seen is:

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

• visual memory

• auditory memory

Maintains the sounds that we heard for about 3-4 seconds

• auditory memory

• visual memory

• sensory memory

• primacy

is also known as working memory

• sensory memory

• primacy

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

Which type of memory has unlimited capacity to remember things your whole life

• sensory memory

• primacy

• long-term memory

• auditory memory