Cognitive Psychology and Memory Processing Quiz

Short-term memory can typically hold around 7 (plus or minus 2) items.

Retrieval is the process of accessing previously encoded and stored information.

Procedural memory is associated with skills and habits, such as riding a bike or typing.

Consolidation is the process of strengthening a memory trace over time.

According to the encoding specificity principle, contextual cues are crucial for successful retrieval of information.

The Multi-Store Model of Memory was proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.

Encoding is the process of converting information into a format that can be stored in memory.

Elizabeth Loftus is known for her research on the misinformation effect and eyewitness testimony.

Retrieval is the mental process of bringing stored information to consciousness.

Deep processing leads to the best memory retention according to the levels-of-processing model.

The serial position effect refers to the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle.

Sensory memory stores information for a brief period, typically a few seconds.

Proactive interference occurs when old information interferes with the recall of new information.

The hippocampus is crucial for the formation of new declarative memories.

Retrograde amnesia refers to the inability to remember events that occurred before a brain injury.

In the context of memory, DRM stands for Deese-Roediger-McDermott.

Alan Baddeley proposed the concept of working memory as a system that actively holds and manipulates information.