Memory and Intelligence

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming
• chunking
• encoding
• storing

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

• roughly equal to seven units of information
• enhanced through hypnosis
• essentially unlimited
• typically much greater in young children than in adults

Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called

• repressed memories.
• sensory memories
• mood-congruent memories
• flashbulb memories

Sensory memory lasts a ______________.

• brief moment

• as long as you need it

• long enough to get all the details

• as long as you are using it

Nothing will stay in your short-term memory for more than about 20 seconds without _____________.

• mnemonics

• maintenance rehearsal

• great effort

• paying close attention

Remembering the items at the beginning and end of a list more easily is called...

• the ABCs of memory

• primacy-recency effect

• global standard

• mushroom memory

______ stores information based on categories and features.

• STP

• LTM

• ICBM

• STM

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

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

The first stage of memory that involves information bombarding us every second.  

• sensory memory
• short-term memory
• automatic processing
• effortful processing

Our memory for skills, such as driving a car.

• implicit memory

• explicit memory

• echoic memory
• iconic memory