Chapter 6 Test (Memory)

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

• pain of a broken leg
• riding a bicycle
• learning the days of the week
• playing the piano

How long is information retained in the short-term memory?

• fraction of a second
• ten to twelve seconds
• four minutes
• fifteen minutes

Which is the easiest of the three basic memory tasks?

• recall
• recognition
• relearning
• chunking

What factors are part of normal forgetting?

• maintenance and elaborative rehearsals
• interference and decay
• repression and amnesia
• chunking and schemas

Organization of items into familiar or manageable units

• eidetic imagery
• recall
• iconic memory
• chunking

The second memory task, bringing something back to mind.

• eidetic imagery
• recall
• iconic memory
• chunking

Ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time

• eidetic imagery
• recall
• iconic memory
• chunking

First stage of information storage, the immediate, initial recording of data

• repression
• Recall
• sensory memory
• echoic memory

Loss of ability to remember events leading up to a traumatic event

• retrograde amnesia
• anterograde amnesia
• recency effect
• repression

Loss of ability to store new memories, particularly after trauma to the brain

• retrograde amnesia
• anterograde amnesia
• primacy effect
• repression