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Module 23, Ch. 9 Encoding and Storage

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to process that information into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage system.

a)

Encoding

b)

memory

c)

retrieval

d)

storage

2.

An active system that receives information from the senses, puts that information into a usable form, organizes it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.

a)

Encoding

b)

memory

c)

retrieval

d)

storage

3.

Getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used.

a)

memory

b)

retrieval

c)

storage

d)

encoding

4.

Holding onto information for some period of time.

a)

memory

b)

retrieval

c)

storage

d)

encoding

5.

The very first stage of memory; the point at which information enters the nervous system through the sensory system.

a)

information processing model

b)

short term memory

c)

Sensory memory

d)

echoic memory

6.

Model of memory put forth by Atkinson & Shiffrin that assumes the processing of information for memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory in a series of three stages.

a)

information processing model

b)

short term memory

c)

sensory memory

d)

echoic memory

7.

The memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used.

a)

echoic memory

b)

sensory memory

c)

Short term memory

d)

information processing model

8.

The brief memory of something a person has just heard.

a)

short term memory

b)

sensory memory

c)

echoic memory

d)

information processing memory

9.

The ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input.

a)

iconic memory

b)

parallel distributed processing

c)

Selective attention

d)

levels-of-processing model

10.

Visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second.

a)

iconic memory

b)

selective attention

c)

levels-of-processing model

d)

parallel distributed processing

11.

A model of memory in which memory processes are proposed to take place at the same time over a large network of neural connections.

a)

parallel distributed processing

b)

iconic memory

c)

selective attention

d)

levels-of-processing model

12.

Model of memory that assumes information that is more “deeply processed, “or processed according to its meaning rather than just the sound or physical characteristics of the word or words, will be remembered more efficiently and for a longer period of time.

a)

levels-of-processing model

b)

selective attention

c)

parallel distributed processing

d)

iconic memory

13.

The system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently.

a)

maintenance rehearsal

b)

working memory

c)

Declarative (explicit) memory

d)

Long term memory

14.

Practice of saying information to be remembered over and over in one’s head in order to maintain it in short-term memory.

a)

Declarative (explicit) memory

b)

maintenance rehearsal

c)

working memory

d)

long term memory

15.

An active system that processes the information in short-term memory.

a)

long term memory

b)

declarative (explicit) memory

c)

Maintenance rehearsal

d)

working memory

16.

Type of long-term memory containing information that is conscious and known.

a)

maintenance rehearsal

b)

Declarative (explicit) memory

c)

working memory

d)

long term memory

17.

Type of long-term memory including memory for skills, procedures, habits, and conditioned responses. These memories are not conscious but are implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior.

a)

Elaborative rehearsal

b)

episodic memory

c)

Semantic memory

d)

nondeclarative (implicit) memory

18.

Type of declarative memory containing general knowledge, such as knowledge of language and information learned and in formal education.

a)

nondeclarative (implicit) memory

b)

elaborative rehearsal

c)

episodic memory

d)

Semantic memory

19.

A method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful in some way.

a)

semantic memory

b)

Elaborative rehearsal

c)

semantic network model

d)

episodic memory

20.

Model of memory organization that assumes information is stored in the brain in a connected fashion, with concepts that are related are stored physically closer to each other than concepts that are not highly related.

a)

semantic network model

b)

elaborative rehearsal

c)

episodic memory

d)

working memory

21.

Type of declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to others, such as daily activities and events.

a)

semantic network model

b)

working memory

c)

episodic memory

d)

elaborative rehearsal