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

The memory that holds information for the shortest period of time is known as __________________?

A. Sensory memory
B. Long term memory
C. Short term memory
D. Implicit memory

Forgetting that occurs solely as a function of the passage of time is called _______________?

A. Amnesia
B. Decay
C. Adaptation
D. Interference

The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied and incorporated into memory is called ________________?

A. Storage
B. Reasoning
C. Encoding
D. Retrieval

Those items that are most likely to be forgotten are those ___________________?

A. With the least digits/letters
B. At the beginning of a long list
C. In the middle of a long list
D. At the end of a long list

The process of encoding refers to _____________________?

A. The persistence of learning over time
B. The recall of information previously learned
C. Getting information into memory
D. A clear memory of an emotionally significant event

In contrast to a dissimilar-items list, a similar-items list is __________________?

A. More difficult to learn
B. Easier to learn
C. Learned with equivalent ease
D. More susceptible to the serial position effect