Memory

Learning the the United States stopped importing all oil and energy from Russia but not be able to identify where you learned this information is an example of

• retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Source amnesia

• constructed memory processing

Memory retrieval in which a person identifies an object, idea, or situation as one he or she has or has not experienced before

• recognition

• recall

• storage

• retrieval

The transforming of information so the nervous system can process it

• retrieval

• storage

• encoding

• confabulation

The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember

• encoding

• recognition

• chunking

• episodic

What type of memory makes it possible for you to watch a movie without noticing the gaps between the frames?

• semantic memory

• sensory memory

• episodic memory

• procedural memory

Knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meanings, is called

• iconic memory.

• working memory.

• episodic memory.

• semantic memory.

Whe a person subconscously blocks memories of a frightening experience, this kind of forgetting is called

• indexing.

• decay.

• amnesia.

• repression.

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.

Memory of facts is to ____ as memory of skills is to _________. 

• Brainstem; hippocampus
• Explicit memory; implicit memory
• Automatic processing; effortful processing
• Short-term memory; long-term memory

Which brain part is responsible for facilitating explicit memories?

• brain stem
• cerebellum
• amygdala
• hippocampus