Memory for General Knowledge About the World That Is Not

question 38

Multiple Choice

Memory for general knowledge about the world that is not associated with a time and place when the information was learned is known as ____.

• A) procedural memory
• B) implicit memory
• C) semantic memory
• D) episodic memory

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Definitions:

Closure

The psychological tendency to seek a coherent and logical ending to an open issue or incomplete task.

Interposition

A visual cue for depth perception that occurs when one object partly blocks another; it can provide information about the relative positions and distances of objects in space.

Bottom-Up Processing

Information processing in which individual components or bits of data are combined until a complete perception is formed.

Top-Down Processing

Information processing in which previous experience and conceptual knowledge are applied to recognize the whole of a perception and thus easily identify the simpler elements of that whole.