Long Term Memory Review

Iconic memory refers to

• the encoded meanings of words and events in short-term memory
• the effortlessly processed incidental information about the timing and frequency of events
• the visually encoded images in long-term memory
• photographic, or picture-image, memory that lasts for only a few tenths of a second

Sounds and words that are not immediately attended to can still be recalled a couple of seconds later because of our ________ memory.

• flashbulb
• implicit
• echoic
• iconic

The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as

• chunking
• the serial position effect
• automatic processing
• long-term potentiation

What part of the neuron has a long lasting change and strengthens with long-term potentiation?

• Axon
• Mylein Sheath
• Dendrite
• Synapse

What part of the brain plays a role in storing procedural memories?

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Cerebellum
• Hippocampus

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

• Sensory Memory
• Short Term Memory
• Working Memory
• Long Term Memory

Ebbinghaus' retention curve best illustrates the value of

• imagery
• rehearsal
• priming
• chunking

Many people retain their classically conditioned fears without any conscious recollection of how or when those fears were learned. This best illustrates ________ memory.

• implicit
• state-dependent
• sensory
• working

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as ________ is to ________.

• visual stimulation; auditory stimulation
• short-term memory; long-term memory
• automatic processing; effortful processing
• explicit memory; implicit memory

In an effort to remember how to spell "rhinoceros," Samantha spells the word aloud 30 times. She is using a technique known as:

• priming
• the "peg-word" system
• rehearsal
• chunking