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Example Question #9 : Memory
The saying "you never forget how to ride a bike" describes the persistence of which type of memory?
procedural
explicit
semantic
priming
episodic
procedural
Riding a bike is a type of procedural memory, the memory of a participating in a physical or cognitive process. Procedural memories are implicit (implied) rather than explicit (conscious).
Episodic memory is the memory for events in one's life (your 10th grade birthday party), and semantic memory is the memory for facts and knowledge (the first US president).
Priming is not a type of memory at all, but rather a method of affecting implicit memories in which exposure to one stimulus affects subsequent exposure to another stimulus. An example of priming might be that exposing someone to the word "rocket scientist" before taking a science test might make them get a higher score.
Example Question #11 : Cognition
In a psychology lab experiment, the subject have to memorize long lists of words, do fifteen basic math problems, and then get tested on the lists of words. What process were the experimenters getting the subjects not to do by including the math problems in between the memorization and the recall?
Blocking
Flashbulb memories
Reconsolidation
Rehearsal
Chunking
Rehearsal
By including math problems in between memorization and recall, the experimenters were trying to avoid rehearsal-- the internal repetition of items to extend short term memory.
As for the other answers, chunking is clustering smaller items into larger groups to aid in memory, blocking is the failure to remember something even though it's in the memory, reconsolidation is changes in the memory that can occur when a memory is recalled, and flashbulb memories are vivid memories of shocking events.
Example Question #611 : Individual Psychology And Behavior
What is the difference between iconic memory and echoic memory?
Iconic memory is long term visual memory, whereas echoic memory is long term auditory memory
Echoic memory is very short term visual memory, whereas iconic memory is very short term auditory memory
Echoic memories are transformed into iconic memories by consolidation.
Echoic memory is long term visual memory, whereas iconic memory is long term auditory memory
Iconic memory is very short-term visual memory, whereas echoic memory is very short term auditory memory
Iconic memory is very short-term visual memory, whereas echoic memory is very short term auditory memory
Iconic and echoic memories are both types of very short-term sensory memories. Remember that iconic memory is visual and echoic memory is auditory; you can see an icon and hear an echo.
As for the answer choice about memory consolidation, consolidation is the process through which a memory becomes stable in the brain and does not have to do with iconic or echoic memories.
Example Question #12 : Cognition
What is the process by which we get information into our brains?
Storage
Recall
Encoding
Retention
Retrieval
Encoding
Psychologists describe the human memory system as being information-processing models that compare human memory to computer operation systems. Therefore, using this analogy, in order for information to initially be processed into our brains, it must undergo the process known as encoding. This allows for information to be "coded" into our brains.
Much evidence has been uncovered for psychologists to suggest there being three ways to learning: recall, recognition, and relearning. These three forms of learning feedback into the persisted learning that makes up memory and together make up a way to measure retention (a process known as storage). Therefore, these other options would be incorrect as they focus on another part of memory.
Example Question #14 : Memory
Elizabeth is taking a fill-in-the-blank pop quiz in her English class. What form of memory is she exercising while answering the questions?
Recall
Retention
Storage
Relearning
Recognition
Recall
Much evidence has been uncovered for psychologists to suggest there being three ways to learning: recall, recognition, and relearning. These three forms of learning feedback into the persisted learning that makes up memory and together make up a way to measure retention (a process known as storage).
Recall is simply the retrieval of information that is not currently in your conscious awareness but was learned at a previous time. This is tested through a fill-in the blank tests, where the individual is challenged to recall information based on context.
Example Question #11 : Memory
How does shallow processing affect encoding?
It allows encoding of only visual stimuli
It allows basic level encoding
It allows encoding of only auditory stimuli
It allows complex level encoding
It allows for encoding based on the meaning of a word
It allows basic level encoding
There are different levels of processing, such as shallow processing and deep processing. The first refers to processing information at a shallow, or basic, level. This would entail encoding a word's letters or maybe even how a word sounds. Deep processing entails semantic encoding. This means encoding based on the meaning of a word. This more complex level of encoding allows for better retention.
Example Question #11 : Memory
Of the given options, which form of learning does a multiple-choice test engage?
Relearning
Recall
Encoding
Recognition
Storage
Recognition
Memory is learning that has persisted over time, allowing information to be stored and retrieved. Much research has been undertaken to allow psychologists to outline three types of learning that aid in memory formation: recall, recognition and relearning. These three processes feedback and provide psychologists with a way to measure retention (storage) of information that has been encoded into the brain.
Recognition is the process by which an individual can identify things that he or she has previously learned. In the case of a multiple-choice exam, the individual is provided with all potential answers to the question. It becomes a matter of being able to recognize which option best answers the question.
Example Question #621 : Individual Psychology And Behavior
Of the following options, which process of memory does studying for a cumulative final exam engage?
Retention
Recall
Storage
Recognition
Relearning
Relearning
Psychologists have suggested that there are three types of learning that aid in memory formation: recall, recognition and relearning. These three processes feedback and provide psychologists with a way to measure retention (storage) of information that has been encoded into the brain.
Relearning is the process by which we learn something for the second time. This learning process often occurs faster than the first time. For instance, covering new information for a unit in math may be challenging at first, but after a few weeks when it's time to take a test on the entire unit, it may be easier to digest that previously covered concept that was so challenging. The same process is encountered when studying for a cumulative final. This final covers information from the beginning of the semester that may have easily been forgotten, but the information may be quickly relearned when revisiting it.
It may seem that recall would be an appropriate answer, however, this process requires retrieving information not currently in one's conscious memory. For example, this is exhibited during a fill-in-the-blank test. Given that the question merely asks for the reviewing of information, this answer would be incorrect, as we do not know the format of the test. The same may be applied for recognition. This is the process by which one identifies concepts already learned. While this may also seem like an appropriate answer choice, it is not as it is a process well exhibited through multiple-choice tests. Given the four or five options provided as an answer to a question, using recognition will allow one to recognize the potentially correct answer to the question. These processes do not entertain the idea of studying or reacquiring information.
Example Question #16 : Memory
With regards to information-processing models for memory, what is the process during which information is retained?
Encoding
Recognition
Recall
Retrieval
Storage
Storage
The information-processing models are analogies that compare human memory to a computer's operations. In doing so, this analogy breaks the human memory system into three parts: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Encoding is the first part of the processing. It is during this stage that the information gets into our brains. In terms of a computer, this would be when information is "encoded" into the hard drive. This process is followed by storage. As the term indicates, this is when information is retained. This is synonymous with retention, which is measured by recall, recognition and relearning. The third process to this model is retrieval. Much like when we command a computer to do something and it retrieves the information that's been stored, this is when we call the information back out from storage.
Example Question #11 : Memory
In 1968, Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin proposed a three-phase model to explain memory-processing. According to their proposed model, to-be remembered information is first recorded as __________.
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
Encoding
Working memory
Sensory memory
Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin proposed a three-phase model to explain the memory forming process. This included in order:
1. Recording to-be remembered information as sensory memory. This is when external events causes a sensory input (stimulus). It's this fleeting occurrence that will be processed as a sensory memory.
2. Information is then processed into short-term memory. At this time, the information is encoded into our brains through rehearsal.
3. For future retrieval, information then moves into long-term memory.
This model has been updated since Atkinson and Shiffrin's time by other psychologists to now include working memory and automatic processing. Working memory is the middle ground for processing. It may be thought to occur at the same time as short-term memory processing. At this time, information is merely actively (working) processed while short-term memory processes it to be sent to long-term memory. Automatic processing is the direct pathway by which external events are automatically processed into long-term memory.
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