Intro to psychology Quiz 6 Ch. 8

What kind of memory involves storage of brief events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes?

.sensory

What is semantic memory?

Knowledge about words, concepts, and language based on knowledge and facts.

Pan finds it difficult to learn the alphabet, until he hears the alphabet song. Then he can easily remember it, this is an example of ____________ encoding.

acoustic

Encoding information occurs through _________________________________

automatic and effortful processing.

What type of memories do we consciously try to remember and recall?

explicit memories

What is episodic memory?

information about events we have personally experienced.

What is the set of processes used to encode, store and receive information over different periods of time?

memory

The encoding of words and their meaning is known as _________ encoding.

semantic

Elaborative rehearsal involves ___________________________________________________________.

thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory.

What is procedural memory?

type of implicit memory that stores information about how to do things.