Unit 5 Cognition Quick Check

The ability to recall and mentally re experience specific episodes from one’s personal past 

• episodic memory

• prospective memory

• context-dependent memory

• semantic memory

Conscious, long-term memory for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts about the world

• semantic memory

• implicit memory

• procedural memory

• short term memory

the conscious recollection of experiences, events and information used in everyday life. 

• explicit memory

• sensory memory

• implicit memory

• state-dependent memory

information we do not store purposely and is unintentionally memorized

• implicit memory

• explicit memory

• mood-congruent memory

• semantic memory

Because it has all of the features commonly associated with the concept bird, a robin is considered a

• prototype

• schematic

• algorithm

• heuristic

Compared to convergent thinkers, to solve a problem divergent thinkers are more likely to:

• Think creatively and generate multiple answers

• process information to arrive at the single best answer

• Problem solve in a systematic step-by-step fashion

• Use algorithms rather than heuristics to arrive at a solution

If you studied French in high school, you might have a hard time learning Spanish vocabulary words in college because of:

• proactive interference

• retroactive interference

• maintanence rehearsal

• declarative memory

Retrograde amnesia is a phenomenon in which a person suffers a brain injury from a stroke or an accident and loses the ability to remember:

• Events immediately before the injury

• Events immediately after the injury

• Newly formed declarative memories

• Procedural memories

What part of the brain is implicit memory found?

• cerebellum

• hippocampus

• frontal lobe

• hypothalamus

Working memory is most active during which portion of the information-processing model?

• short term memory

• sensory memory

• long term memory

• semantic memory