Memorising and forgetting

Memory is defined as..

• An active information-processing system that recieves, stores and recovers information.

• Thoughts experienced previously in ones life.

• The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.

• The act or an instance of remembering; recollection

• The act or an instance memorising and forgetting

Incoming sensory information must go through this sequence in order to be remembered:

• Storage, encoding, retrieval.

• Retrieval, encoding, storage.

• Encoding, storage, retrieval

• Storage, retrieval, encoding

• None of all

There are three main kinds of measures used to determine how much information has been retained, they are:

• Free recall, cued recall and serial recall.

• Relearning, recall and recognition.

• Method of savings, free recall and recognition.

• Free recall, retrieval, ensoding

• Recognition, Retrieval, Serial recall

Which of the measures of retention is considered the most sensitive?

• Recognition

• Free recall

• Recall

• Relearning

• Cued recall

The duration of short-term memory is approximately:

• 18-20 seconds

• One to two minutes

• Three to four hours

• 30 to 40 seconds

• 2-4 seconds

Which of the following is not a stage in the information-processing model of memory?

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

• episodic memory

• sensory register

According to the information-processing model, attention serves as a....

• temporary memory buffer

• control mechanism

• retrieval mechanism

• sensory register

The sensory register has all of the following characteristics except....

• Visual information lasts about a quarter of a second.

• It holds an exact image of each sensory experience.

• Auditory information lasts about 4 seconds.

• The capacity is 7 ± 2 bits of information.

Which of the following BEST describes the memory capacity of the sensory register?

• capacity is limited on the average to chunks of information

• there is the potential for partial recall of everything ever experienced in episodic memory

• designed to hold an exact image of the sensory experience

• it depends on the effort put into the process of attention

Suppose that you call the information operator to find a friend's phone number. When you dial your friend's number, you get a busy signal. Later, when you start to dial the number again, you realize you have forgotten it. This experience probably occurred because the phone number was only temporarily stored in your

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

• sensory register

• none of the above