Introduction to Psychology: Memory

Which of the following best defines memory?

• A passive system that only stores information for a short duration.

• An active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it, and retrieves it from storage.

• A system that only retrieves information without altering or organizing it.

• A passive system that stores information permanently without modification.

Holding onto information for period of time.

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Echoic

James is preparing for a big presentation and needs to hold onto information for period of time.

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Echoic

Getting the information out of storage, and into a form that can be used.

• Storage

• Retrieval

• Encoding

• Iconic

The set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information into a form usable in the brain’s storage systems

• Echoic

• Storage

• 
  

  Retrieval

• Encoding

Jackson is trying to remember the details of a lecture he attended. He uses a set of mental operations to convert the sensory information he gathered during the lecture into a form that he can store in his brain’s storage systems.

• Echoic

• Storage

• 
  

  Retrieval

• Encoding

Information-processing model: Assumes that the processing of information for memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory

• True

• False

There are 3 Stages of Information-processing model. Which are?

• Sensory Memory

• Mid-Term Memory

• Short-Term Memory

• Sensory Motor

• Long-Term Memory

Sensory Memory is the point at which information enters the nervous system through the sensory systems and Raw information from the senses is held for a very long period of time

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Raw information from the senses is held for a very brief period of time

something a person has just viewed / saw,

lasting only a fraction of a second.

• Echoic

• Iconic