Psych 160 Ch 7 MU Quiz

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This is a take-home, open book, essay quiz. You are to answer each of the following with adequate detail. In
most cases your answers will be one or more paragraphs in length. Short, overly concise answers will receive
little or no credit. Please submit your answers printed on separate paper.
1. Distinguish between the memory processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval.

2. Compare and contrast sensory, short-term, and long-term memory.

3. Describe the different components of long-term memory.

4. What are semantic networks, and how do they relate to spreading activation models of memory?

5. Explain the differences between recall and recognition memory tasks.

6. What are repressed memories, and why are they so controversial in psychology?

7. Briefly compare and contrast the different theories that describe why we forget.

8. What occurs in long-term potentiation, and how is it related to consolidation?

9. Define proactive interference and give an example.