Format is 30 MC questions

1 open ended question

Use chapter 9 Memory and notes

This assignment is due the day of the test. It is worth 10 points.

1. Memory is the ability to recall what?
2. What is the levels of processing approach? How does it work?
3. What is the most important factor for encoding?
4. What is the difference between:
1. sensory memory.
2. short-term memory.
3. long-term memory.
5. Be able to apply scenarios about long and short term memory
6. In the sensory register, ________ storage is for visual stimuli and ________ is for auditory storage.
7. Information can be held in short-term working memory for about how long?
8. George Miller maintained that humans can retain about ________ (plus or minus two) items in short-term memory.
9. Describe chunking and how it works.
10. Compare elaborative and maintenance rehearsal.
11. The memory system that contains information such as what you ate for dinner yesterday and the procedure for setting your alarm clock is
12. Know each of the following types of memory and be able to apply them to examples.

1. procedural
2. iconic
3. semantic
4. episodic
5. declarative
6. repressed
7. sensory
12. How does the hippocampus affect memory?
13. Define recall.
14. What is state-dependent memory?
15. What is the serial position curve?
16. What is the von Restorff effect
17. What are the primacy and recency effects?
18. What is flashbulf memory? How come you are more likely to remember these events?
19. What is the difference between leveling and sharpening?
20. What is interference?
21. Describe what the research shows about eyewitness testimony.
22. The Freudian concept of motivated forgetting is called what?
23. What is the stroop effect?
24. Loss of memory for events that occurs after an individual has suffered a brain injury is called what?

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

Choose three concepts that you learned about. Describe them in DETAIL and illustrate them using examples. This question is worth 10 points.