7-Quiz

The first psychologist to emphasize the importance of constructive processes in memory was:

Frederic Bartlett.

Which of the following forms of memory refers to memory for skills and habits?

Procedural memory

When you try to list all the classes you've ever taken in college, chances are you will recall your last few classes particularly well. What is this phenomenon called?

Recency effect

_____ is a memory task in which individuals are presented with a stimulus and asked whether they have been exposed to it in the past or to identify it from a list of alternatives.

Recognition

Grouping pieces of information together to expand the effective capacity of short-term memory is termed _____.

chunking

"I know it! It's um . . . um . . . ," begins a trivia game contestant excitedly. The contestant is engaged in a test of her _____ memory.

explicit

Memories of which we are not consciously aware are called _____ memories.

implicit

Material in memory storage has to be located and brought into awareness to be useful. This process is known as _____.

retrieval

A stimulus that facilitates the recall of information from long-term memory is called a:

retrieval cue.

Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question, but not being quite able to say it. This is called the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon, and is a failure of:

retrieval.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, psychologist George Sperling conducted key studies of:

sensory memory.

Our ability to recall an item from a list depends on where in the list the item occurs. This is the _____ effect.

serial position - PG 219

The concept of working memory represents a contemporary conceptualization of _____ memory.

short-term

The hippocampus is located in the _____ lobe.

temporal

_____ is a phenomenon in which exposure to a word or concept later makes it easier to recall related information, even when there is no conscious memory of the word or concept.

Priming

_____ memory refers to the initial, momentary storage of information that lasts only an instant.

Sensory

_____ amnesia occurs when an individual has a memory for some material but cannot recall where he or she encountered it.

Source

You examine the schedule for your favorite football team. The team plays sixteen games each season. Later you try recalling that schedule for a friend who likes the same team you do. Chances are you will recall opponents at the beginning of the schedule particularly well. This is an example of the _____ effect.

primacy

Knowing how to serve a badminton birdie is an example of a(n) _____ memory.

procedural

The unconscious process whereby disturbing memories are prevented from entering awareness is called:

repression.