Modules 31-33 Retrieval Practice

the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

• memory
• storage
• retrieval

the processing of information into the memory system

• encoding
• automatic processing
• anterograde amnesia

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

Which of the following is not related to forgetting?

• Retroactive interference
• Repression
• Decay
• Long term potentiation

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

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

According to the serial position effect, you will remember more: 

• items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.
• nitems in the middle of a list, than at the beginning and end.
• vocabulary words if you process them visually.
• nvocabulary words if you process them acoustically.

Which of the following processes is likely to result in the best memory for words?

• visual encoding
• acoustic encoding
• rote memorization
• semantic encoding

Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the: 

• amygdala.
• hypothalamus.
• sensory cortex.
• motor cortex.

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:

• repression.
• retroactive interference.
• encoding failure.
• source amnesia.

Which of the following would be predicted by Ebbinghaus’ famous forgetting curve?  Several years after learning the dates of important historical events for a college class, students:

• nwill remember most of the dates, and will remember them for years to come.
• nwill remember most of the dates, and will slowly start to forget them.
• will have forgotten most of the dates, but what they do remember, they’ll remember for years to come.
• nwill have forgotten most of the dates, but during the years to come, they will again remember what they initially forgot.