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Match the term to the memory description.

Terms:

  1. Mnemonic device
  2. Sensory memory
  3. Episodic memory
  4. Short term memory
  5. Semantic memory
  6. Surface processing
  7. Long term memory
  8. Chunking
  9. Deep processing
  10. Procedural memory

Descriptions:

  • Where all sensations come into memory
  • Memory aides
  • General factual knowledge
  • Long term memory - important for personally experience event
  • Limited to 5-9 bits
  • Permanent and unlimited
  • Just memorizing information for a test
  • Connects new information with already known information
  • Grouping similar bits of information into meaningful units
  • Memory of how to do things

Answers:

  1. Memory aides

    Answer: Mnemonic device

  2. Where all sensations come into memory

    Answer: Sensory memory

  3. Long term memory - important for personally experience event

    Answer: Episodic memory

  4. Limited to 5-9 bits

    Answer: Short term memory

  5. General factual knowledge

    Answer: Semantic memory

  6. Just memorizing information for a test

    Answer: Surface processing

  7. Permanent and unlimited

    Answer: Long term memory

  8. Grouping similar bits of information into meaningful units

    Answer: Chunking

  9. Connects new informatoin with already known information

    Answer: Deep processing

  10. Memory of how to do things

    Answer: Procedural memory

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