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What is sensory memory?
shortest term element of memory
long term memory
memory your senses do not remember
the memory of what your sense remember
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What is a mnemonic device?
A cylinder filled with liquid used to open/close things
the medical term for fluid in your lungs
Any technique that aids in learning and retaining information
A French word for a small meal between lunch and dinner
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What type of encoding technique is: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
information processing
mnemonic device
serial position effect
chunking
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Explicit memory requires
Unrelated retrieval
Conscious retrieval
Unconscious retrieval
Golden retriever
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About how long is your short term memory?
0-2 seconds
20-30 Seconds
10 Minutes
About an Hour
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What is the magic number of memory?
5 +/- 2
3 +/- 5
4 +/- 2
7 +/- 2
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What is an echoic memory?
An auditory memory
A visual sensory memory
A memory brought up by a feeling
A repressed memory
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Essay and fill-in-the blank are types of which type of retrieval?
Short
Long
Recall
Recognition
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Memory aids that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
mnemonics
self reference
algarithms
state dependent
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Which is an example of an implicit memory
Recognizing a celebrity
Remembering how to tie your shoelace
Recalling the name of your 7th grade math teacher
Describing the taste of a birthday cake
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Long-term retention and enhanced memories are best achieved by:
Distributed practice by rereading
Distributed practice by retrieval
Massed practice by retrieval
Massed practice by rereading
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What part of brain does not store memory?
hypothalamus
corpus callosum
amygdala
hippocampus
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Retrieval is also known as
recognition and recall
output and restored
repeating and rehearsal
Stored and processing
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An area of the brain of importance for memory storage is the
Parietal Lobe
Thalamus
Medulla oblongata
Hippocampus
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Multiple choice and matching are types of which type of retrieval?
Short
Long
Recall
Recognition
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What is another name for short term memory?
misinformation effect
encoding
long term
working memory
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What are the the stages of the memory processes?
analyzing, storing, retrieval
encoding, saving, analyzing
retrieving, analyzing, sensing
encoding, storage, retrieval
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Memory
Disorder in which mood is disturbed
Receives information from the senses
The main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety
Bodily illness and symptoms
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A procedural memory is...
A memory of an specific life event
A memory of for colors and numbers
A memory very vivid almost life-like memory
A memory of how to do a specific task
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The serial position effect
Shows recall is best in the middle of a list
Shows the position of information has no affect on recall
Shows recall is best at the end of a list
Shows recall is best form the start of a list
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How long is long-term memory?
one year
3 - 6 hours
for 10-20 minutes
for an unlimited or unspecified period of time
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What is automatic encoding?
Memory that keeps slipping away
Forcefully trying to remember information
Info is taken and remembered without effort
A function that helps your decision making
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Encoding that requires your attention is
Implicit Memory
Working Memory
Effortful Processing
Automatic Processing
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What is retroactive Interferance?
New memories affecting old ones
Spacing out learning
Old memories affecting new ones
Old memories affecting old ones
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What are the two types of interference?
Retroactive and Proactive
Retro and Pro
Proactive and Lazy
Old and New
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What are context dependent cues?
a memory trick that relies on finding new information
relies on hand gestures
a memory trick that relies on associationg locations to information
relies on information already known
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Which stage is encoding?
second stage
first stage
fourth stage
third stage
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"I've experienced this before" cues from a current situation may trigger retrieval
deja vu
sensory storage
retrieval cues
procedural memory
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Explicit Memory includes
Procedural & Emotional
Semantic & Episodic
Semantic & Emotional
Procedural & Semantic
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A reconstructed memory is..
A memory suddenly remembered
A made-up memory
A un-repressed memory
A memory with misinformation
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A flashbulb memory is
Memory of one's personal experiences
a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
the processing of information into the memory system
the retention of encoded information over time
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Which defense mechanism occurs when a person cannot recall something?
Denial
Repression
Projection
Regression
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The process of obtaining information that has been stored in memory...
retrieval
output
memory
encoding
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Implicit memory includes
Procedural & Episodic memory
Procedural & Emotional memory
Episodic & Emotional memory
Emotional & Semantic memory
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Encoding of picture images is
picture encoding
acoustic encoding
semantic encoding
visual encoding
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What is retrieval failure?
Forgetting because you don't have access to the right cues
Forgetting because of lack of rehearsal of information
Forgetting because you don't need the information
Forgetting information
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What is state-dependent memory?
Memories that are the opposite of the mood you're in
Only being able to encode certain memories in a certain mood
Tendency to recall experiences that go with your mood
Memories that make you feel a certain way
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Which is a method for short-term memory?
chunking a phone number
singing your favorite song over and over
looking at the spot on the couch to know where to cut
smelling a sugar cotton ball to remember where you got it
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Because of the Serial Position Effect...
You will easily remember a list if put into a mnemonic.
You will not remember items at the beginning of the list.
It will be hard to recall items in the middle of a list.
You will recall information into 7 meaningful chunks.
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Episodic memory is...
Long-term memory of personal events
Long-term memory of how to do things
Sensory memories
Long-term memory of knowledge
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What is semantic memory?
the power of retaining and recalling past experience
Memory of one's personal experiences
your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma
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The effect that misleading details can effect a persons memory
Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon
Encoding Failure
Misinformation effect
Source Amnesia
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Semantic encoding is...
encoding of pictures images
encoding of meaning
the encoding of sound
all of the above
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All of these are ways to improve the encoding process, except:
Chunking
Motivation
Visual Imagery
Osmosis
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What is proactive interference?
New learning disrupts recall of old information
Clinging to one's initial beliefs despite contrary evidence
Prior learning disrupts recall of new information
Defense mechanism to get rid of anxiety- arousing thoughts
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Massed practice is...
Breaking a skill down into parts to practice
Eating food to gain mass
Training against someone heavier than you
Practicing a skill without a break
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Overlearning refers to?
Forgetting a skill that was learne
Studying until something is memorized
The conditioning
practicing new skills past the point of initial mastery
