GCSE Psychology - Memory #2

'A new memory blocking an old memory' is a description of:

• Proactive interference

• Reconstructive memory

• Retroactive interference

• False memory

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Factors affecting memory

Learning something by putting it to music is an example of:

• Semantic encoding

• Acoustic encoding

• Tactile encoding

• Visual Encoding

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Processes of memory

Answering a multiple choice question in an exam is an example of:

• Recognition

• Free recall

• Acoustic encoding

• Semantic encoding

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Processes of memory

Which of the following is an acoustically similar word list?

• Pit, few, cow

• Great, large, big

• Good, huge, hot

• Cat, cab, can

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Processes of memory

Remembering how to perform actions is an example of:

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

• Procedural memory

• Declarative memory

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Processes of memory

Clive Wearing had dementia, forgetting his wife's name, but could still play the piano. Which aspect of his memory did he lose?

• Episodic memory

• Short term memory

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory

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Processes of memory

An example of sensory memory in action is:

• Recognising a friend in the street

• Repeating someone's phone number to yourself

• Seeing the name of your destination on a airport display screen

• Remembering the answer to an exam question

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Multi-store memory

Which of the following is a strength of the multi-store memory model?

• Research shows that rehearsal helps to place information in the long term memory

• All people have a short term memory of the same size

• You remember everything that you see

• Once something is in your long term memory, you will never forget it

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Multi-store memory

Being able to recall he words at the start of a list refers to the:

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

• Serial position curve

• Reconstructive effect

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Murdock's serial position curve

In his serial position curve study, Murdock used a list of words, which meant that the study:

• Was a laboratory experiment

• Was not very well controlled

• Tested a wide range of memory skills

• Doesn't tell us how memory works in all aspects of life

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Murdock's serial position curve