Quick Memory Quiz - 15 questions

Who said memory is an active process, meaning we have to reconstruct memories fragment by fragment?

• Bartlett

• Atkinson Shiffrin

• Murdock

• Dweck

Who said information needs to be rehearsed to make it into long term memory?

• Bartlett

• Atkinson Shiffrin

• Murdock

• Willingham

Who said memory is not accurate?

(a)  

Who found that words at the beginning of a list were recalled most, which they called the primacy effect?

• Gibson

• Atkinson-Shiffrin

• Murdock

• Bartlett

Who conducted the serial position curve study?

(a)  

What was the name of Bartlett's study?

(a)  

Name one factor which affects the accuracy of memory

(a)  

What has to happen to any information for it to be encoded properly?

• it has to be encoded, stored and retrieved

• it has to be stored

• it has to be encoded through sound

• it has to be changed into a code, e.g a visual code

The three types of retrieval are cued recall, free recall and ...

(a)  

When we encode something based on what we hear it's called (a)   encoding