Psychology week 8

Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as why type of memory?

• Declarative

• Semantic

• Sensory

• Procedural

• Repressed

An individual’s memory for being able to swim is an example of which type of memory?

• Semantic

• Flashbulb

• Procedural

• Priming

• Episodic

Memory for facts and meanings about the world is known as what type of memory?

• Declarative

• Semantic

• Sensory

• Procedural

• Repressed

The fact that Karly still knows how to ride a bicycle even though she has not ridden one in thirty years best exemplifies which of the following types of memory?

• Procedural

• Acoustic

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Iconic

Remembering that the capital of Venezuela is Caracas is an example of what type of memory?

• Procedural memory

• Short–term memory

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

• Implicit memory

An individual’s ability to remember the day he or she first swam the length of a swimming pool is most clearly an example of which of the following kinds of memory?

• Semantic

• Emotional

• Procedural

• Priming

• Episodic

Remembering when you went on a train to the seaside is an example of what type of memory?

• Implicit memory

• Short–term memory

• Semantic memory

• Procedural memory

• Episodic memory

What is the type of long-term memory that involves a personal experience called?

• Semantic memory

• Reflective memory

• Episodic memory

• Procedural memory

• Personal memory.

When a list of words is learned in order, which words are most likely to be forgotten?

• The words at the beginning of the list.

• The words at the end of the list.

• The words in the middle of the list.

• The words that are the hardest to pronounce.

• The words that are the easiest to spell.

You reach the supermarket and you realise that you left your shopping list at home. According to the serial position effect which items on the lists are you most likely to recall?

• The items at the beginning of the list

• The items at the end of the list

• The items at the end of the list

• A and B

• B and C