PERIOD 5 Unit 5 Review

Anterograde amnesia is a disease that someone is born with.

• True

• False

Describe Short-Term Memory

Answer explanation

Short-term memory (STM) is a temporary memory system that allows us to temporarily store and manipulate a limited amount of information for a brief period of time. STM is also sometimes referred to as working memory. The capacity of STM is limited, typically to around 7 items or pieces of information, plus or minus two. This is known as the "magic number" of STM. This means that we can hold about 5 to 9 items inSTM for a short period of time, such as a few seconds or minutes

Which of the following processes does your brain use to access memory?

• Recall

• Relearning

• Recognition

• All of the above.

Information that we are currently aware of or thinking about isknown as...

• Haptic Memory

• Recognition

• Iconic Memory

• Short-Term Memory

Encoding is the creation of a permanent record of the encoded information.

• True

• False

An inability to form new memories is called anterograde amnesia

• True

• False

What is Baddeley’s working memory?

• the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, the central executive, and the episodic buffer.

• model of memory that assumes the processing of information for memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory in a series of three stages

• an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.

• none of the above.

Which of the following factors can impact memory encoding?

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Consolidation

_________ is when many people benefit greatly from visualizing the information they study.

Repression/ Visualize Concepts/ Distributed Practice /Long-Term Potentiation

Which of the following is NOT a stage of memory processing?

• Encoding

• Storage

• Forgetting

• Retreival