Week 1

Question 1

Short-term memory has a ____ capacity than sensory memory and a ____ duration

Answer 1

Smaller; longer

Question 2

When we first detect something in our environment, the information is briefly stored in…

Answer 2

Sensory memory

Question 3

____ is the process of putting information into long-term memory, and ____ is the process of getting it back

Answer 3

Encoding; retrieval

Question 4

Depth of processing experiments show that encoding is most effective when participants retrieve ____ information about the items they are trying to learn

Answer 4

semantic?

Question 5

In an experiment, participants are asked to learn pairs of words. When they are tested, they are given one of the words and asked to remember the other. This is an example of a:

Answer 5

cued recall task

Question 6

____ memory involves recalling specific events, while ____ memory involves recalling general knowledge about the world.

Answer 6

Episodic; semantic

Question 7

In ____, participants are asked to report what they remember without any help, while in ____ they simply indicate whether they have seen an item before.

Answer 7

recall tasks; recognition tasks

Question 8

In an experiment, participants are asked to learn a list of words until they can perfectly remember them. Then, participants are called back after varying amounts of time and asked to learn the list until it is perfect again. Experimenters measure how long this process takes. This is an example of measuring:

Answer 8

relearning

Question 9

The span of long-term memory is ____, while the duration of long-term memory is____.

Answer 9

High or unlimited; hours to lifetime

Question 10

Procedural memory can be described as

Answer 10

• A kind of implicit memory
• Memory for motor skills like riding a bicycle
• Memory for skills which can be demonstrated that may be difficult to verbally described

Question 11

Sensory memory involves

Answer 11

• Iconic memory
• Echoic memory
• Haptic memory

Question 12

Span

Answer 12

How many pieces of information a system is able to hold

Question 13

Duration

Answer 13

How long a system is able to hold on to information

Question 14

It appears that our visual system is able to hold a great deal of information but if we do not ____ to this information it will be ____ lost due to ____.

Answer 14

Attend; rapidly; decay

Question 15

What is the purpose of sensory memory?

Answer 15

To maintain information briefly as it passes from visual receptors to central memory resources