Test Review: Memory

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

Which of the following memories happen with conscious awareness?

• Implicit Memories
• Episodic Memories
• Procedural Memories
• Repressive Memories

Which of the following is not related to forgetting?

• Retroactive interference
• Repression
• Decay
• Long term potentiation

This memory happens when you hear a song and it takes you back to 3rd grade and you start remembering a series of events

• Flashbulb
• Episodic
• Procedural
• Redintegrative

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

• Sensory Memory
• Short Term Memory
• Working Memory
• Long Term Memory

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

If you learn French and begin to learn Spanish and are picking it up easy because the words look very similar to your French terms, you are experiencing

• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Positive Transfer
• Negative Transfer

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

• Having a strong emotional experience to a memory.
• Spaced Practice
• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Mass Practice

If distractors are strong, Recognition is superior to recall.

• True
• False

Which of the following has a tendency to be the hardest way to learn something?

• When positive transfer occurs.
• Using shallow processing.
• Using elaborative rehearsal
• Using deep processing.