Psychology Final Exam

The process of obtaining information that has been stored in memory

• encoding

• retrieval

• chunking

• recognition

The transforming of information so the nervous system can process it

• retrieval

• storage

• encoding

• confabulation

The process by which information is maintained over a period of time

• encoding

• confabulation

• procedural

• storage

What happens to information in your brain after it has been encoded?

• It goes through the storage process.

• It gets divided into schemas.

• It is ready for retrieval.

• It is screened for interference.

If you recite the rhyme "Thirty days has September, April, June, and November" to remember the number of days in each month, you are using a(n)

• mental picture.

• mnemonic device.

• schema.

• mental picture.

The process of getting the information back out of memory storage.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• Next-in-line-effect

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.

• chunking
• mnemonic
• relearning
• recall

The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

• explicit   
• short-term   
• implicit   
• sensory

What are the components of memory?

• long term memory, sensory memory, the amygdala

• Basal Ganglia, amygdala, hippocampus

• Encoding, storage, retrieval

• Storage, memory, hippocampus

the PROCESS of placing encoded information into long term memory is called

• storage

• sensory memory

• short-term memory

• long-term memory