Psych Quiz - Chapter 6

Which of the following is true about anterograde amnesia?

It is the failure to remember the events that occurred after a physical trauma.

__________ is the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

Memory

_________ is the memory to perform an act in the future, as at certain time or when a certain event occurs.

Prospective memory

Christopher knows a lot of facts about the earth. He knows that the circumference of Earth is 40,030 km even though he did not personally measure the circumference of the Earth. This knowledge is referred to as

Semantic memory

After a single presentation, Megan can recall her friend's long distance telephone number and five digit extension even though the sequence contains 15 digits. one reason for her ease of recall is that she split the digits into smaller groups of three each. This process is called

Chunking

___________ is the first stage of information processing

Encoding

The _________ is the tendency to recall more accurately the first and last items in a series.

Serial position effect

Episodic Memory is referred to as

autobiographical memory

In order to form new memories, you must have a fully functioning

hippocampus

Dana's inability to recall the events of her first birthday is known as

infantile amnesia

In the context of memory and forgetting, one of the cognitive explanations for infantile amnesia states that

infants do not make reliable use of language to symbolize or classify events

To remember the names of all the countries in Asia, Jennifer is mentaller repeating all the names several times. This scenario illustrates

maintenance rehearsal

In memory theory, the term ________ means to cause information to be lost from from short term memory by adding new information

Displace

The capacity of short term memory is approx.

about 7 items at one time

In the context of memory and forgetting, the view that one may forget stored material because other learning overlaps with it is known as

interference theory

Although crystal had practiced her presentation several times before class, shred's struggled in the middle part of the speech when she gave it in class. This pattern of forgetting illustrates

the serial-position effect

As she was listening to her psychology professor discuss ways to improve memory. Ebony thought of different ways she could apply the suggestions to herself. Later that day she was trying to recall the different techniques, she could only recall the first couple. This reflects

the serial-position effect