Unit 2.3: Introduction to Memory

What are the three steps of memory processing, according to the standard information-processing model:

• encoding, storage, retrieval

• automatic processing, storage, retrieval

• encoding, effortful processing, retrieval

• automatic processing, short-term potentiation, long-term potentiation

In order to understand what's happening in a new environment, your brain runs all information through its existing ________________ in an effort to connect new information to older, established information.

• schemas

• stimuli

• algorithms

• executive functions

When attention is focused on one thing, but the brain is processing myriad other sensory stimuli (unconsciously), what is the unconscious brain doing?

• automatic processing

• explicit memory

• effortful processing

• retrieval

What are the two major types of long-term memory?

• automatic memory & effortful memory

• explicit memory and implicit memory

• episodic memory and procedural memory

• encoded memory and procedural memory

How does the brain encode explicit memory?

• through intermittent repetition

• through immersion

• through deliberate, conscious effort

• through episodic encounters

When, in order to recall a concept, we use specific cues that are associated with the moment in which we learned that concept, we are using:

• recall

• retrieval

• priming

• mental set

When Dr. Mullee gives you a practice quiz before giving you the real quiz, he is using what technique to increase the likelihood that you will remember psych concepts:

• priming

• implicit memory

• encoding

• effortful processing

Jhanya needs to remember to pick up her "Topic 2.3" packet from Dr. Mullee before the day ends. She uses her ___________________ to not forget.

• long-term potentiation

• implicit memory

• sensory memory

• prospective memory

Highly emotional memories are processed primarily by what part of the brain?

• hippocampus

• amygdala

• prefrontal cortex

• Wernicke's area

Short-term memory holds small amounts of information for around:

• a few seconds to a minute

• up to five minutes

• a few seconds up to around ten minutes

• five to ten seconds