Unit 2: Cognition

A student struggles to remember their locker combination because they recently learned a new one. This is an example of:

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Encoding failure

• Repression

While looking for their classroom, a student repeats their room number to themselves until they find the door. This is an example of using:

• Long-term memory

• Working memory

• Implicit memory

• Echoic memory

What type of memory is responsible for remembering how to ride a bike without conscious effort?

• Explicit memory

• Semantic memory

• Episodic memory

• Implicit memory

Remembering your high school graduation is an example of:

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory

• Episodic memory

• Sensory memory

To remember a phone number, Marcus breaks it into three parts (e.g., 555-123-4567). This technique is called:

• Mnemonics

• Chunking

• Rehearsal

• Spacing effect

The tendency to better remember items at the beginning of a list is known as the:

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

• Serial positioning

• Long-term potentiation

What term describes the process of getting information into memory?

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Priming

• Consolidation

Remembering information better when you're in the same emotional state as when you learned it is called:

• Context-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

You remember a recent trip better when returning to the same location. This is an example of:

• Context-dependent memory

• Semantic memory

• Implicit memory

• Working memory

A vivid, detailed memory of where you were during a major world event is an example of a:

• Semantic memory

• Flashbulb memory

• Primacy memory

• Implicit memory