Psychology: Memory Ch.6 + Learning Ch.7 Quiz
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| Total Attempts: 474
Quiz covers material in the book chapter 6 and chapter 7. Fill in the BEST answer from your notes for each question below.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What kind of memory consists of the skills or procedures that people have learned?
- 2.What kind of memory consists of events that people have experienced or witnessed? (do not answer flashbulb)
- 3.Sensory memory consists of the ___________ , initial recording of information that has entered through a person’s senses.
- 4.What is a special kind of episodic memory?
- 5.What is the memory of general knowledge?
- 6.What contains the information a person wants to remember more than just briefly?
- A.
Long-term memory
- B.
Short-term memory
- C.
Psychic memory
- D.
Amnesiatic memory
- 7.How many kinds of memory are there?
- 8.What is a mental process for organizing into meaningful units?
- A.
Storage
- B.
Chunking
- C.
Icons
- D.
Decoding
- 9.Short-term memory can retain only a limited amount of information at one time.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.An encouraging stimulus that increases the frequency of a behavior when it is presented is called a positive reinforcer.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.An observable reaction is called a stimulus.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.This type of memory consists of the immediate, initial recording of information that has entered through a person’s senses.
- 13.When the brain translates incoming information into visual, acoustic, or semantic codes it is called
- 14.Mental pictures we form of visual stimuli are called
- A.
Stimuli
- B.
Icons
- C.
Photoreceptors
- D.
Flashbulb
- 15.Anterograde prevents a person from forming new memories following a trauma
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.A person can retrieve a context dependent memory by going back to the place where the memory was formed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.People that cannot remember events from their infancy or early childhood are experiencing
- A.
Repression
- B.
Trauma
- C.
Infantile Amnesia
- D.
Decay
- 18.Repeating information over and over again to keep from forgetting it is called ________________ rehearsal.
- 19.Severe memory loss from injury, shock, fatigue, illness, or repression is
- 20.Something used to help trigger a memory of something else
- 21.What is a learned avoidance for a certain food?
- 22.Learning by observing and imitating the behavior of others is called _______ learning.
- 23.A type of conditioned learning in which only some of the responses are reinforced is called ____________ reinforcement.
- 24.When a person is exposed to the harmless stimulus until fear responses to that stimulus are extinguished, this is called _______________.
- 25.An unpleasant stimulus that increases the frequency of behavior when it is removed is called a _______________ reinforcer.
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