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- A. explicit memory
- B. semantic memory
- C. episodic memory
- D. implicit memory
Explanation: Implicit memory stores skills and procedures that are expressed through performance, such as riding a bicycle, often without conscious…
Correct answer: implicit memory- A. iconic
- B. implicit
- C. echoic
- D. flashbulb
Explanation: Iconic memory is the extremely brief sensory register for visual information.
Correct answer: iconic- A. state-dependent memory
- B. retroactive interference
- C. the spacing effect
- D. proactive interference
Explanation: Proactive interference occurs when prior learning disrupts the recall or learning of newer information.
Correct answer: proactive interference- A. retrieval
- B. attention
- C. encoding
- D. recall
Explanation: Encoding transforms and organizes information so it can pass from short-term memory into long-term storage.
Correct answer: encoding- A. encoding
- B. retrieval
- C. rehearsal
- D. storage
Explanation: Retrieval is the process of accessing information that has already been stored in memory.
Correct answer: retrieval- A. encoding
- B. attention
- C. retrieval
- D. rehearsal
Explanation: Attention selects information from the brief sensory store for further processing in short-term memory.
Correct answer: attention827. When you perform a learned skill or a habitual response, you are calling on ________________ memory?
- A. semantic
- B. procedural
- C. episodic
- D. declarative
Explanation: Procedural memory is implicit memory for learned actions, skills, and habits, such as typing or driving.
Correct answer: procedural828. Cognitive psychologists often liken the short-term store of the mind to which part of a computer?
- A. the keyboard
- B. the printer
- C. the central processing unit
- D. the monitor
Explanation: Short-term memory is often compared with a computer's central processing unit because it temporarily holds and actively manipulates…
Correct answer: the central processing unit- A. consolidation devices
- B. imagery techniques
- C. encoding strategies
- D. mnemonic devices
Explanation: Mnemonic devices are deliberate memory aids, including the method of loci, acronyms, and the peg-word system.
Correct answer: mnemonic devices- A. mental picture
- B. test or measure of memory
- C. technique of encoding language sounds
- D. memory aid
Explanation: A mnemonic is a memory aid that uses a rhyme, acronym, image, or association to make information easier to encode and retrieve.
Correct answer: memory aid- A. 2
- B. 5
- C. 7
- D. 10
Explanation: The classic estimate for short-term memory capacity is about seven items, commonly expressed as 7 plus or minus 2.
Correct answer: 7- A. context effects
- B. iconic traces
- C. retrieval cues
- D. schemas
Explanation: Retrieval cues are stimuli linked to stored information that help bring a past memory to mind, such as a place, word, event, or emotion.
Correct answer: retrieval cues- A. active rehearsal
- B. distributive study
- C. speed reading
- D. encoding meaningful associations
Explanation: Speed reading is not a standard memory-improvement strategy and may reduce deep processing.
Correct answer: speed reading- A. episodic
- B. procedural
- C. semantic
- D. pre-attentive
Explanation: Semantic memory stores general facts, word meanings, and concepts, whereas episodic memory stores personally experienced events.
Correct answer: semantic- A. automatically
- B. visually
- C. proactively
- D. implicitly
Explanation: Concrete words such as typewriter, cigarette, and fire are easier to imagine, so they are more likely to receive visual encoding than…
Correct answer: visually- A. recall
- B. recognition
- C. relearning
- D. retrieval
Explanation: Recall, recognition, and relearning are the standard measures of retention.
Correct answer: retrieval- A. recognition
- B. recall
- C. relearning
- D. rehearsal
Explanation: Recall requires producing information with few or no externally supplied alternatives, so it provides fewer retrieval cues than…
Correct answer: recall- A. short-term memory
- B. iconic memory
- C. explicit memory
- D. implicit memory
Explanation: Semantic memory for facts and episodic memory for personal events are both forms of explicit, or declarative, memory because they can be…
Correct answer: explicit memory- A. learned through disturbed practice
- B. each learned on separate days
- C. automatically processed
- D. similar to each other
Explanation: Interference is strongest when old and new information are similar because their memory traces and retrieval cues overlap.
Correct answer: similar to each other- A. recall
- B. recognition
- C. rehearsal
- D. reconstruction
Explanation: Describing the accident without being given answer choices requires recall, the retrieval of stored information through generation.
Correct answer: recall