10.1 Psychology Quiz

In sensory memory, the senses of sight, hearing, and touch are able to hold an input for about a minute before it disappears.

• True

• False

If you read a list and then tried to write down the items from memory, you would be better able to remember the first few items and last few items on the list.

• True

• False

Your ability to understand the words in this sentence is an example of your episodic memory.

• True

• False

A person who is afraid of mice is displaying a type of procedural memory.

• True

• False

When learning occurs, a very complex chemical process occurs after the formation of new connections between neurons.

• True

• False

Which of the following is the correct order of the memory process?

• storage, retrieval, encoding

• retrieval, encoding, storage

• encoding, storage, retrieval

• storage, encoding, retrieval

When you recall a bike that you owned when you were six years old, this is an example of

• sensory memory.

• short-term memory.

• long-term memory.

• iconic memory.

What is the capacity limitation of short-term memory?

• about three unrelated items

• about seven unrelated items

• about ten unrelated items

• about fifteen unrelated items

When you remember your Social Security number as three smaller groups of numbers, you are

• blocking.

• declaring.

• proceeding.

• chunking.

The hypothetical chemical code that produces a memory trace is called the

• engram.

• hippocampus.

• amygdala.

• striatum.