A. Phonological
B. Syntactic
C. Semantic
D. Acoustic
Psychology Mcqs
Memorizing by rote (i.e., repeating something over and over until it is learned) is also called _________________?
A. declarative rehearsal
B. elaborative rehearsal
C. maintenance rehearsal
D. distributed practice
Iconic memory refers to ____________________?
A. visual working memory
B. auditory working memory
C. visual short-term memory
D. visual sensory memory
Children learning the alphabet is a common form of ___________________?
A. serial learning
B. repetition
C. pairing
D. rehearsal
According to Pavlov’s dual-code model of memory, the two types of codes used to store long-term memories are ________________?
A. visual and auditory
B. semantic and syntactic
C. implicit and explicit
D. verbal and visual
The theory of forgetting that stresses the similarity of items in memory is _________________?
A. decay
B. interference
C. consolidation
D. psychodynamic
An ability to learn new information and form new long-term memories is called ________________?
A. retroactive amnesia
B. proactive amnesia
C. anterograde amnesia
D. implicit amnesia
Iconic memory decay in under two seconds from the _______________?
A. short-term store
B. hippocampus
C. long-term store
D. sensory register
The earliest studies of verbal learning and rote memory were conducted by __________________?
A. Thorndike
B. Pavlov
C. Miller
D. Ebbinghaus
The memory store that has a decay time of about 250 milliseconds is __________________?
A. short-term memory
B. echoic memory
C. tactile memory
D. iconic memory