Psych Unit 7: Cognition

The process of getting information into memory is called:

• storage

• chunking

• encoding

• retrieval

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system is called ___ memory.

• sensory

• long-term

• flashbulb

• short-term

During the course of a day, people may unconsciously encode the sequence (timing) of the day's events. This best illustrates:

• the spacing effect

• automatic processing

• the next-in-line effect

• effortful processing

On the telephone, Dominic rattles off a list of 10 grocery items for Kim to bring home from the store. Immediately after hearing the list, Kim attempts to write down the items. She is most likely to forget the items:

• at the beginning of the list

• at the end of the list

• at the middle of the list

• at the beginning and in the end of the list

Tim, a third-grader, learns the sentence "George Eats Old Gray Rats And Paints Houses Yellow" to help him remember the spelling of "geography." Tim is using:

• a mnemonic device

• the peg-word method

• the method of loci

• the next-in-line effect

Our immediate short-term memory for new material is limited to roughly ___ bits of information.

• 3

• 7

• 12

• 24

An eyewitness to a grocery store robbery is asked to identify the suspects in a police lineup. Which test of memory is being utilized?

• recall

• relearning

• recognition

• reconstruction

The smell of freshly baked bread awakened in Mr. Hutz's vivid memories of his early childhood. The aroma apparently acted as a powerful:

• echoic memory

• retrieval cue

• implicit memory

• spacing effect

When Jake applied for a driver's license, he was embarrassed by a momentary inability to remember his address. Jake's memory difficulty most likely resulted from a(n) ___ failure.

• storage

• encoding

• retrieval

• automatic processing

After studying biology all afternoon, Alan is having difficulty remembering details of the Civil War that he memorized that morning. Alan's difficulty best illustrates:

• retroactive interference

• the spacing effect

• proactive interference

• source amnesia