Memory and Encoding Quiz

Ben is asked to memorize the words canine, feline, and avian. He remembers the words by associating them with their synonyms: dog, cat, and bird. This is an example of ________ encoding.

• acoustic

• semantic

• sensory

• visual

What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?

• sensory encoding

• automatic processing

• memory

• effortful processing

Terrance finds it difficult to learn the alphabet, until he hears the alphabet song. Then he can easily remember it. This is an example of ________ encoding.

• acoustic

• sensory

• visual

• semantic

What type of memories do we consciously try to remember, recall, and report?

• implicit memories

• short-term memories

• explicit memories

• sensory memories

The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as ________.

• hyperthymesia

• encoding

• storage

• retrieval

What kind of memory involves storage of brief events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes?

• recall

• effortful

• procedural

• sensory

What is episodic memory?

• information about events we have personally experienced

• knowledge about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts

• storage of facts and events we have personally experienced

• type of implicit memory that stores information about how to do things

You see a television commercial for a product you may want to buy, and there is a telephone number you must call to place an order. Because you don’t have anything with which to write down the number, you repeat it to yourself over and over again until you feel like you won’t forget it. This process is called ________.

• the method of loci

• distributed practice

• rehearsal

• chunking

Research conducted by Miller (1956) found that the magic number for the capacity of working memory is how many units of information?

• 3 plus or minus 2

• 4 plus or minus 1

• 7 plus or minus 2

• 9 plus or minus 3

In order to remember his lines for the play, Guy repeats his lines over and over again. This process is called ________.

• rehearsal

• relearning

• declarative memory

• hyperthymesia