Memory Terms Quiz

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.

• Long-term memory

• Sensory Memory

• Short-term memory

• Episodic Memory

Activated memory that holds a few items briefly.

• Long-term memory

• Short-term memory

• Sensory memory

• Explicit Memory

A type of storage that holds sensory information for a few seconds or less.

• Long-term memory

• Short-term memory

• Sensory memory

• Implicit memory

The gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice, or "knowing how" to do things.

• Sensory Memory

• Working memory

• Procedural memory

• Long-term memory

The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

• Short-term memory

• Working memory

• Procedural memory

• Memory

A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test.

• Recognition

• Recall

• Relearning

• Regency effect

A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test

• Recognition

• Recall

• Relearning

• Regency effect

Automatic processing; the information that we do not store purposely and is unintentionally memorized.

• Implicit memory

• Explicit memory

• Iconic memory

• Echoic memory

Effortful processing; when we consciously try to recall a specific event or piece of information. Things we intentionally try to recall or remember, such as formulas and dates, are stored here.

• Implicit memory

• Explicit memory

• Procedural memory

• Echoic memory

Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list.

• Serial position effect

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

• Spacing effect