PSY 201 Final Exam Questions and All
Correct Answers 2025/2026 Updated.
Implicit Memory - Answer Unconscious retention of information.
Types: Procedural
Encoded with Cerebellum
Explicit Memory - Answer Conscious, intentional retention of information; e.g. recalling
one's SSN.
Types: Declarative, Semantic, Episodic
Encoded with Hippocampus
Procedural Memory - Answer Recall of how to do things physically.
Usually considered implicit memory, as it doesn't involve conscious memory.
Gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice.
Declarative Memory - Answer Recall of factual info, e.g. dates, events, concepts.
Usually considered explicit because it is intentionally stored in memory.
Encoded with Hippocampus.
Semantic Memory - Answer Declarative Memory
Recall of general facts
Episodic Memory - Answer Declarative Memory
Recall of personal facts, usually of emotional significance and often related to a specific event.
Iconic Memory - Answer Fast-decaying store of visual information
Echoic Memory - Answer Fast-decaying store of auditory information
Rehearsal - Answer The process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally
, Working Memory - Answer Active maintenance of information in short-term storage.
Long-term Memory - Answer A type of storage that holds information for hours, days,
weeks, years.
Hippocampus - Answer Stores information in long-term memory.
Consolidation - Answer A process by which memories become stable in the brain.
State-dependent retrieval - Answer The tendency for information to be better recalled when
the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval.
Priming - Answer An enhanced ability to think of a stimulus, such as a word or object, as a
result of recent exposure to the stimulus.
Implicit memory
Transience - Answer Forgetting what occurs with the passage of time.
Absentmindedness - Answer A lapse in attention that results in memory failure.
Prospective Memory - Answer Remembering to do things in the future.
Blocking - Answer A failure to retrieve information that is available in memory even though
you are trying to produce it.
Memory Misattribution - Answer Assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source.
More prone with damage to frontal lobes
Source memory - Answer Recall of when, where, and how information was acquired.
False Recognition - Answer A feeling of familiarity about something that hasn't been
encountered before. >>Deja vu
Correct Answers 2025/2026 Updated.
Implicit Memory - Answer Unconscious retention of information.
Types: Procedural
Encoded with Cerebellum
Explicit Memory - Answer Conscious, intentional retention of information; e.g. recalling
one's SSN.
Types: Declarative, Semantic, Episodic
Encoded with Hippocampus
Procedural Memory - Answer Recall of how to do things physically.
Usually considered implicit memory, as it doesn't involve conscious memory.
Gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice.
Declarative Memory - Answer Recall of factual info, e.g. dates, events, concepts.
Usually considered explicit because it is intentionally stored in memory.
Encoded with Hippocampus.
Semantic Memory - Answer Declarative Memory
Recall of general facts
Episodic Memory - Answer Declarative Memory
Recall of personal facts, usually of emotional significance and often related to a specific event.
Iconic Memory - Answer Fast-decaying store of visual information
Echoic Memory - Answer Fast-decaying store of auditory information
Rehearsal - Answer The process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally
, Working Memory - Answer Active maintenance of information in short-term storage.
Long-term Memory - Answer A type of storage that holds information for hours, days,
weeks, years.
Hippocampus - Answer Stores information in long-term memory.
Consolidation - Answer A process by which memories become stable in the brain.
State-dependent retrieval - Answer The tendency for information to be better recalled when
the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval.
Priming - Answer An enhanced ability to think of a stimulus, such as a word or object, as a
result of recent exposure to the stimulus.
Implicit memory
Transience - Answer Forgetting what occurs with the passage of time.
Absentmindedness - Answer A lapse in attention that results in memory failure.
Prospective Memory - Answer Remembering to do things in the future.
Blocking - Answer A failure to retrieve information that is available in memory even though
you are trying to produce it.
Memory Misattribution - Answer Assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source.
More prone with damage to frontal lobes
Source memory - Answer Recall of when, where, and how information was acquired.
False Recognition - Answer A feeling of familiarity about something that hasn't been
encountered before. >>Deja vu
