PSYC101 Smartbook Assignment Spring2021 Chapters 6&7

Select all that apply Which of the following options are true of explicit memory?

It has two subtypes of memory: episodic and semantic It is sometimes referred to as declarative memory.

Explicit memory is the _____ recollection of information such as facts and events.

conscious

Dr. Marsh has her General Psychology class go through an exercise in which they look at a group of objects and attempt to remember them. Then she has the class look at another group of objects and create a story involving them. The class finds the second group easier to remember because of _____.

elaboration

When _____ is extensive, the person has attempted to make the to-be-remembered information meaningful and has engaged in detailed processing.

elaboration

According to levels of processing, the process of _____ involves three levels.

encoding

Ari is watching a movie. Which initial memory process is Ari using?

encoding

The initial recording of information into memory is called

encoding

True or false: There are five levels of processing in the encoding process.

false

In order to remember the way to the library, Kareem created a mental picture of all of the things he sees on his usual route. Kareem used mental _____ to remember the necessary route.

imagery

When Don was an undergraduate many years ago, his physics professor shot a flaming arrow across the lecture hall to illustrate a physics theory. Because Don vividly remembers the theory today, this is an example of _____.

imagery

_____ memory is when behavior is affected by prior experiences without conscious recollection of the experience.

implicit

A relatively permanent type of memory that stores huge amounts of information is _____ memory.

long-term

the retention of information or experience over time

memory

Long-term memory is a _____ type of memory that stores huge amounts of information.

permanent

Allison lived in a foreign country for a year, and she didn't drive a car during that time. When she came back to the United States, she found it effortless to drive her car. Her ability to remember how to drive is an example of _____ memory.

procedural

Memory is defined as the _____.

retention of information or experience over time

A(n) _____ is a general mental framework that helps us to understand and organize information.

schema

_____ attention involves focusing on a specific aspect of experience while ignoring other stimuli

selective

Marisol is reading her textbook while ignoring the argument her younger siblings are having in the same room. Marisol's situation is a good example of _____.

selective attention

The three stages of memory in the Atkinson-Shiffrin theory are _____ memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

sensory

_____ memory holds information from the world in its original form for only an instant, not much longer than the brief time it is exposed to the visual, auditory, and other senses.

sensory

You are driving down the highway and see a billboard with a phone number on it. You tell yourself to remember it, but after you drive a little farther, you find you've forgotten it. This describes the limitations of _____-_____ memory.

short-term

_____ memory is a limited-capacity memory system in which information is usually retained for less than a minute unless strategies are used to retain it longer.

short-term

The Atkinson-Shiffrin theory of memory proposed that there are _____ systems in memory.

three

Which of the following holds information from the world in its original form for only a brief moment in time?

Sensory memory