QLD Unit 3 Fallibility of Memory

Fading away of memory

• Amnesia
• Decay
• Interference 
• Repression

What is it called when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information?

• Retention
• Retroactive Interference
• Proactiveinterference
• Retrieval Failure

Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information (Forward Acting)

• Retroactive Interference
• Proactive Interactive
• Repression
• Misinformation Effect

The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as

• a single item

• about seven items

• about seven volumes

• limitless

Remembering the first and last items on a list, better than than middle ones is due to

• the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

• redintegration

• the serial position effect

• the pseudo-memory effect

When Carlos was promoted, he moved into a new office with a new phone extension. Every time he is asked for his phone number, Carlos first thinks of his old extension, illustrating the effects of

• proactive interference.

• retroactive interference.

• encoding failure.

• storage failure.

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

Which theory suggests that forgetting is caused by a fading memory trace?

• schema theory

• repression

• decay theory

• interference theory

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

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

Using the Atkinson Shriffin memory model, which process forms a LTM from STM

• selective attention
• recalling
• storage
• encoding