Chapter 7: Memory part 1

What type of memory is like a sensory snapshot of your environment and lasts for only a fraction of a second?

• Short-term memory

• Working memory

• Sensory memory

Short-Term memory only lasts for about 20 seocnds sometimes even less

• True

• False

Allows you to remember what you hear for 5-10 seconds

• Working memory

• Echoic memory

• Primacy effect

What type of memory is responsible for holding information for a brief period of time to complete cognitive tasks?

• Cognitive memory

• Working memory

• Episodic memory

Decay: Refers to the phenomenon of forgetting over time

• True

• Fasle

The "Magic Number" of items you can store in your short term memory

• 7 (plus or minus 2)

• 3 (plus or minus 2)

• 10(plus or minus 2)

When new information causes you to forget previously learned information, what type of interference is this?

• Retroactive interference

• Proactive interference

When old information interferes with new information, what type of interference is this?

• Retroavtive interfernce

• Proactive interference

To remember a telephone number, you say the number over and over again until you can finish dialing it. This memory technique is called?

• Elaborative rehearsal

• Chunking

• Maintenance rehearsal

Memory technique you use to remember larger quantities of information

• Priming

• Maintenance rehearsal

• Chunking