Memory Quiz 1 Review

The three stages of the Atkinson-Shiffrin process of memory are

• iconic, echoic, encoding

• sensory, short term, long term

• shallow, medium, and deep processing

• semantic, episodic, procedural

• cerebellum, temporal lobe, hippocampus

Which of the following best illustrates episodic memory?

• telling someone how to tie a shoe

• answering correctly that the Battle of Hastings was in 1066

• knowing the word for "black" in French is "noir"

• remembering that a clown was at your 5th grade birthday party

• long-term memory for the times tables learned in 2nd grade

Doug wrote a grocery list of 10 items, but leaves it at home. The list included, in order, peas, corn, squash, onions, apples, pears, bananas, flour, milk, and eggs. If the law of primacy holds, which of the following is Doug most likely to remember when he gets to the store?

• peas, pears, eggs

• bananas, flour, peas

• apples, pears, bananas

• flour, milk, eggs

• peas, corn, onions

According to the levels of processing theory of memory,

• we remember items that are repeated again and again

• maintenance rehearsal will encode items into our long-term memory

• deep processing involves elaborative rehearsal, ensuring encoding into long-term memory

• input, output, and storage are the three levels

• we can only hold 7 items in our short-term memory store before it is full

Which of the following brain structures plays a key role in transferring information from short-term memory into long-term memory?

• hypothalamus

• hippocampus

• thalamus

• frontal lobe

• parietal lobe

According to Miller, what is the "magic number" of short-term memory?

• 7 ± 2

• 7 ± 1

• 9 ± 2

• 6 ± 3

• 10 ± 1

Which type of memory is concerned with visual information?

• Working

• Echoic

• Semantic

• Iconic

• Episodic

Which of the following is most likely to be encoded automatically?

• The reading you completed in your 5 Steps to a 5 book

• The name of the show you watched on Netflix last night

• The locations of the states and capitals

• The names of your new co-workers

• The vocabulary words you have for English class

___ encoding occurs when you make personal connections to new information.

• Automatic

• Parallel

• Self-referent

• Semantic

• Maintenance

Which is NOT a component of Baddeley's working memory model?

• Phonological loop

• Visuospatial sketchpad

• Parallel processing

• Central executive