Psychology 200 Chapter 6 Quiz

Mental repetition of information to keep it in memory is called elaborative rehearsal.

False

Jason, while standing on the deck of a ship, is trying to memorize distant landmarks to the harbor entrance; he is trying to create a mental picture of all the names. He is using _____.

A visual code

Katie is a very skilled in-line skater and a tap dancer. Her skills are a part of her _____.

Implicit Memory

A person's ability to recall a historic event, like the American Civil War of 1861-65, would be an example of _____.

Semantic Memory

__________is the type or stage of memory that is first encountered by a stimulus.

Sensory Memory

Which of the following statements is true of interference in short-term memory?

The appearance of new information in short-term memory displaces the old information.

The hippocampus does not become mature until we are about two years old.

True

The interference by old learning with the ability to retrieve material learned recently is known as__________.

Proactive Interference

Implicit memories involve methods and skills, cognitive and physical, and are also referred to as _____.

Procedural Memories

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

Prospective Memories

__________of stored information means locating it and returning it to consciousness.

Retrieval

The__________is the tendency to recall more accurately the first and last items in a series.

Serial-position effect

Which of the following is true about the storage of information in long-term memory?

We tend to organize information according to a hierarchical structure.

The levels-of-processing model of memory holds that memories tend to wane when information is processed deeply.

False

The flow of visual information seems smooth and continuous because of__________memory, which can hold visual stimuli for up to a second.

Iconic

Which of the following statements is true of proactive interference?

Older learning interferes with new learning only if the new material shares similarity with the old material.

While watching a comedy show, Amanda remembered many funny incidents from her own college life. This is an example of _____.

State-dependent Memory

Caleb read in the newspaper that a popular corporation had appointed a new CEO. When he was talking about this to a friend, Caleb could only remember the first letter and the last letter of the new CEO's name. This illustrates _____.

The serial-position effect

Event-based tasks are to be performed at a certain time or after a certain amount of time has elapsed between occurrences.

false

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.