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memory

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

memory is .........

a)

a process

b)

an end

c)

an action

d)

a means

2.

Memory retrieval in which a person identifies an object, idea, or situation as one he or she has or has not experienced before

a)

recognition

b)

recall

c)

storage

d)

retrieval

3.

The process of obtaining information that has been stored in memory

a)

encoding

b)

retrieval

c)

chunking

d)

recognition

4.

Fading away of memory over time

a)

interference

b)

confabulation

c)

schemas

d)

decay

5.

blockage of memory by previous or subsequent memories or loss of a retrieval cue

a)

confabulation

b)

decay

c)

interference

d)

episodic

6.

Conceptual frameworks a person uses to make sense of the world

a)

procedural

b)

semantic

c)

chunking

d)

schemas

7.

The transforming of information so the nervous system can process it

a)

retrieval

b)

storage

c)

encoding

d)

confabulation

8.

Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material

a)

storage

b)

retrieval

c)

recall

d)

encoding

9.

Your short-term memory is most similar to which of the following parts of a computer?

a)

monitor

b)

mouse

c)

random access memory

d)

hard drive

10.

Knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meanings, is called

a)

iconic memory.

b)

working memory.

c)

episodic memory.

d)

semantic memory.

11.

Someone is playing a song on a piano that you have heard before. You are able to identify this song as one you have heard because of which process?

a)

recognition

b)

reconstruction

c)

recaall

d)

confabulation

12.

Whe a person subconscously blocks memories of a frightening experience, this kind of forgetting is called

a)

indexing.

b)

decay.

c)

amnesia.

d)

repression.

13.

If you relate new information to material that you already know, you are practicing

a)

elaborative rehearsal.

b)

chunking.

c)

the Method of Loci.

d)

the spacing effect.

14.

If you recite the rhyme "Thirty days has September, April, June, and November" to remember the number of days in each month, you are using a(n)

a)

mental picture.

b)

mnemonic device.

c)

schema.

d)

mental picture.