AP Psychology Memory and Forgetting

Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called

• Generic Memory
• Procedural Memory
• Iconic Memory
• Flashbulb Memory

Which memory task involves identifying objects encountered before?

• Recognition
• Recall
• Relearning
• Repression

After looking up a phone number, Jim calls it, then forgets. The number was stored in his

• Short-Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Visual Memory
• Echoic Memory

The process of filing information into your memory is...

• Chunking
• Encoding
• Retrieving
• Priming

Our long-term memory capacity is

• In direct correlation to our age
• Varies greatly by gender
• Essentially limitless
• In direct correlation to our age

______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

• Recall
• Amnesia
• Storage
• Potential

the persistence of learning over timethrough the storage and retrieval of information

• Encoding
• Memory
• Storage
• Relearning

the process of getting information out of memory storage.   

• recall 
• rehearsal
• priming
• retrieval

translation of information into a form to be stored and recovered

• Schema
• Encoding
• Recognition
• Icons

Short term memory is limited to about ___ items

• 3
• 5
• 7
• 0