Chapter 5: Memory

Question 1

Unrehearsed information is lost in about 15 to 30 seconds

Answer 1

Short term memory

Question 2

Information is retained indefinitely although some information may be difficult to retrieve

Answer 2

Long term memory

Question 3

An active system that processes the information in short term memory

Answer 3

Working memory

Question 4

A method of transferring info from STM to LTM by making that info meaningful in some way

Answer 4

Elaborative rehearsal

Question 5

Memory that is not easily brought into conscious awareness

Answer 5

Implicit memory

Question 6

Memory that is consciously known

Answer 6

Explicit memory

Question 7

Tendency to remember info at the beginning of a body of info better than the info that follows

Answer 7

Primacy effect

Question 8

Tendency to remember information at the end of a body of info better than the info at the beginning

Answer 8

Recency effect

Question 9

Error of recognition in which people think they recognize some stimulus that is not actually in memory

Answer 9

False positive

Question 10

All information lost within a second or so

Answer 10

Sensory memory