10.2 Psychology Quiz

The process of ____________________ provides insight into how information is stored in memory.

If a child described accurately the details of a picture you showed him for just a few seconds, it is likely that it was a(n) ____________________ memory.

If you learn a dance that you first performed years ago as a young child, you are ____________________.

____________________ refers to a memory being blocked or erased by previous or subsequent memories.

If a person lost her memory after suffering a head injury, she is likely experiencing ____________________.

Which of the following is a mnemonic device?

• relearning

• Ginkgo biloba

• Method of Loci

• scheming

What do Ginkgo biloba and Vitamin B12 have in common?

• both promote state-dependent learning

• both are believed to improve or sustain memory

• both are examples of confabulation

• both have been linked to the onset of input decay

If, after learning a new locker combination, you could not remember your old locker combination, you would be experiencing

• retroactive interference.

• proactive interference.

• amnesia.

• repression.

If, while becoming angry at a person, you remember other times he made you angry, this is an example of

• relearning.

• state-dependent learning.

• interfering.

• indexing.

Conceptual frameworks a person uses to make sense of the world are called

• recognitions.

• recalls.

• confabulations.

• schemas.