Psychology Memory Review

Current Psychological research strongly supports Freud's theory on repression.

Long term memory is also called our working memory.

Which is the best analogy for memory?

This type of memory is in response to emotionally significant events.

This type of memory holds all the trivial facts we have not necessarily tried to learn.

Our tendency to encode happy, visual moments of our lives is called:

Psychologists have proven that our long term memory is limited.

A multiple choice question is an example of a recognition process.

An older memory disrupting the recall of a newer memory is called proactive interference.

This is also known as working memory.

Where do we store visual impressions from our senses?

What type of information do we tend to encode automatically?

Most mnemonic devices depend on visual images because we encode them the easiest.

Memories in our permastore memory are especially resistant to forgetting.

A more recent memory disrupting the recall of a older memory is called retroactive interference.

This type of memory consists of the immediate initial recording of information.

Researchers have fully supported the phenomenon of recovered memories.

What are the three processes of memory?

Young children are more likely than older children to remember falsely.

The tendency to remember the first item on a list is called the:

This holds the information that people consciously spend energy learning.

The enhanced semantic encoding of information that is personally relevant to us is called:

The tendency to recall items at the end of a list is called the:

How long do we hold sound information in our sensory memory?

Where do we store sound impressions from our senses?

Process by which we recollect prior experiences, information & skills learned in the past.

Hermann Ebbinghaus concluded the more we rehearse information, the more we retain.

Massed rehearsal is more effective than distributed rehearsal for encoding information.