Memory Unit Quiz

According to the information processing model of memory, information is …

• 1) encoded, 2) stored, 3) retrieved
• 1) conditioned, 2) stored, 3) accessed
• 1) conditioned, 2) stored, 3) triggered
• 1) encoded, 2) saved, 3) accessed
• 1) written, 2) recalled, 3) forgotten

___________ memory holds visual information for a few tenths of a second; __________ memory holds auditory information for about 3-4 seconds.

• pictographic, auditional
• visual, hearing
• echoic, iconic
• hearing, visual
• iconic, echoic

Approximately how many items can a person hold in short-term memory at once?

• 13
• 7
• infinitely many
• 2
• 18

What do rehearsal, subjective organization, and mnemonic devices all have in common?

• they are all retrieval techniques
• they all help Psychologists design experiments
• they all have opposing functions
• they are all encoding techniques
• they are all storage techniques

Melanie's new friend from another state just gave her his phone number. As she goes to enter the number into her contacts list she finds that she cannot remember all the numbers in their right order. Which of the following is the best explanation for this failure?

• She was so excited that she could not type the numbers fast enough.
• Being 10 digits long, the number is beyond Miller's "magic number" for STM capacity.
• She lacks photographic memory.
• Because the number was so short, she did not pay enough attention to it.
• Her iconic memory disrupted her encoding of the number.

To help himself remember the name of his new colleague, Hope, Jose thinks about the meaning of her name - the feeling of hopefulness. Which of the following concepts best corresponds to Jose's strategy?

• chunking
• long-term potentiation
• semantic encoding
• self-reference
• imagery

Gene learns to ride a bike. This skill is stored in his..

• episodic memory
• explicit memory
• procedural memory
• redundant memory
• semantic memory

Morena answers a question in class by providing a definition. She retrieved this information from her..

• episodic memory
• explicit memory
• procedural memory
• redundant memory
• semantic memory

Attributing an event we experienced or heard about to the wrong source is called..

• temporal lobe destruction
• source amnesia
• memory transduction
• source aphasia
• amnesia

One type of forgetting is ____________, which is the loss of stored information due to the passage of time.

• decay
• repression
• interference
• construction loss
• long-term deterioration