PSY Chapter 7 Test 02/09

________ memory is general knowledge that people remember.

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Implicit

• Eidetic

____ ____ is the ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time.

• Eidetic imagery

• Semantic memory

• Recency effect

• Primary effect

____ ____ is the tendency to recall the initial items in a series of items.

• Primary effect

• Eidetic imagery

• Recency effect

• Semantic memory

Organization of items into familiar or manageable units/categories is known as ____.

• decay

• chunking

• categorizing

• imagery

Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called _____ memory.

• implicity

• flashbulb

• iconic

• semantic

Which of the following is the memory process that locates stored information and returns it to consciousness?

• encoding

• storage

• retrieval

• interference

The ability to recall the last items in a series/list is called _____.

• sensory memory

• visual codes

• hypnosis

• recency effect

What is the final stage of memory information?

• sensory information

• short-term memory

• photographic memory

• long-term memory

The fading away of memory is known as _____.

• amnesia

• decay

• dementia

• Alzheimer's Disease

A semantic code represents information in terms of its ____.

• mental picture

• sequence of sounds

• meaning

• pattern