GCSE Psych Memory

An example of sensory memory in action is:

• Recognising a friend in the street

• Repeating someone's phone number back to yourself

• Seeing your name written in the air with a sparkler

• Remembering the answer to an exam question

Encoding is mostly acoustic and capacity is between 5 and 9 items. What am I describing?

• Sensory memory

• Long-term memory

• Visual memory

• Short-term memory

The three types of long-term memory are:

• Episodic, semantic, procedural

• Visual, semantic, procedural

• Recognition, acoustic, episodic

• Episodic, visual, procedural

Murdock used lists of words, which means that his study:

• His experiment wasn't very well controlled

• He tested a wide range of memory skills

• the experiment was lacking in internal reliability

• the experiment lacked mundane realism

Some memories are stored in terms of their meaning. Which type of encoding is this?

• Acoustic

• Olfactory

• Semantic

• Tactile

Not being able to remember your new boyfriend's name and you keeping calling them by your old boyfriend's name is an example of:

• Proactive Interference

• Reconstructive Memory

• Retroactive Interference

• Freudian Slip

Participants in Barlett's study transformed the story to make it:

• More interesting

• More culturally diverse

• More familiar

• longer

Context related to memory suggests that:

• We remember more in the mornings

• A cue can trigger accurate recall

• We forget things if we go back to where we learnt them

• Being in a familiar context is necessary in order for us to remember anything

The three stages of the memory process (in the correct order) are:

• Encoding, storage, retrieval

• Encoding, retrieval, storage

• Encoding, recognition, retrieval

• Visual encoding, acoustic encoding, retrieval

Not being able to remember an old phone number because you can only remember the new one is an example of:

• Primacy Effect

• Proactive Interference

• Recency Effect

• Retroactive Interference