Memory

 Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus and blocking out all other stimuli.

• Parallel Processing

• Absolute Threshold

• Weber's Law

• Selective attention

This model of memory says that memory exists in three stages: Encoding, storage, and retrieval.

• Levels-of-Processing Model

• Parallel Distributed Processing Model

• Information Processing Model

• Connectionism

• Relationism

Which type of sensory memory works with visual stimuli?

• Short-Term memory

• Working memory

• Iconic Memory

• Echoic Memory

• Explicit Memory

If a sensory message is important enough to enter consciousness, it moves from sensory memory to which type of memory?

• Long-Term Memory

• Implicit Memory

• Echoic Memory

• Short-Term Memory

• Eidetic Memory

What is the process of making information meaningful to transfer it from short-term to long-term memory?

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• Long Term Pontentiation

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Declarative Memory

• Implicit Memory

If you recognize an image or complete a task such as walking or tying your shoe, which type of long-term memory are you most likely using?

• Declarative

• Non-Declarative

• Echoic

• Iconic

• Working

What is the term that states we remember the first (primacy) and last (recency) items on a list?

• State-Dependent Learning

• Mood Congruent Memory

• Retrieval Failure

• Serial Position Effect

• Recall

When a person has a strong emotional connection to a memory and is able to remember vivid details about that situation, they have just experience a _______________ memory.

• Iconic

• Echoic

• Non-Declarative

• Flash-bulb

• Recency

Hermann Ebbinghaus was one of the first memory researchers and was able to graph how most memories are forgotten. According to Ebbinghaus, when are most memories forgotten?

• The First Hour

• The Second Day

• Within the next three months

• Within the next six months

• The last 15 days.

If information that has been stored in memory is not used for an extended period of time, what will most likely happen to that memory?

• Encoding Failure

• Retrieval Failure

• Retrograde Interference

• Storage Decay

• Anterograde Amnesia