Answers to Key Terms Exercise

  1. encoding specificity principle
  2. recall
  3. retroactive interference
  4. iconic memory
  5. chunk
  6. explicit memory
  7. anterograde amnesia
  8. elaborative rehearsal
  9. spacing (distributed study) effect
  10. schemas
  11. episodic memory
  12. cue-dependent theory
  13. Sperling's partial-report procedure
  14. infantile/child amnesia
  15. memory span task