Cognitive Family Quiz

1 ________ involves converting sensory information into a form to be stored in the brain; ________ involves getting this information out from the brain such that it can be used.

• Retrieval; storage

• Encoding; storage

• Encoding; retrieval

• Storage; encoding

Answer explanation

encoding the set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage systems.

storage holding on to information for some period of time.

retrieval getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used.

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

Which of the following is not related to forgetting?

• Retroactive interference
• Repression
• Decay
• Long term potentiation

Which of the following memories happen with conscious awareness?

• Implicit Memories
• Episodic Memories
• Procedural Memories
• Repressive Memories

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

• Sensory Memory
• Short Term Memory
• Working Memory
• Long Term Memory

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

According to _________ theory, you are likely to form memories that mirror your emotional state.

• Mood congruent
• Mood dependent
• episodic memory
• priming

The three stages of the Information processing model of memory are

• iconic,

  echoic,

  encoding

• semantic, episodic, procedural

• cerebellum, temporal lobe, hippocampus

• sensory,

  short term,

  long term

Kevin and Jonathan see each other for the first time in twenty years at a class reunion. They immediately recall the winning play of the state championship game they played in together as seniors in high school.

• short-term memory.

• iconic memory.

• procedural memory

• episodic memory

Severe memory loss caused by injury to the brain

• Decay

• Amnesia

• Interference

• Chunking