Psychology : Memory and Thinking Combo

The term used to describe the mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge is:

• Cognition
• Learning
• Perception
• Sensation

According to the information processing model what are the components of memory?

• long term memory, sensory memory, the amygdala

• Basal Ganglia, amygdala, hippocampus

• Encoding, storage, retrieval

• Storage, memory, hippocampus

Which brain part is responsible for facilitating long term memories?

• brain stem

• cerebellum

• amygdala

• hippocampus

The mental processing of retrieval of information from memory.  A fill in the blank test is a good example.

• recall
• recognition
• relearn
• learning

Information can be held in this storage bank for around 30 seconds with out rehearsal.

• short-term memory
• long-term memory
• sensory memory
• visual encoding

In Finding Nemo, Dory repeating directions to herself is an example of

• Recall

• Retrieval

• Flashbulb memory

• Rehearsal

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

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

Given a list of names people usually remember the first part of the list and the last part of the list more and are more prone to forget the names in the middle due to:

• Serial position effect

• Poor memory

• Cereal position effect

• Priming position effect

This part of the brain deals with stress and emotions. In very stressful or intense memory can be affected

• Amygdala

• Hippocampus

• Occipital Lobe

• Basal Ganglia

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

• explicit   
• short-term   
• implicit   
• sensory