GCSE Psychology Memory and Forgetting Quiz 1

What type of memory is responsible for our personal experiences and general knowledge?

• Implicit memory

• Explicit memory

• Sensory memory

• Short-term memory

What is the term for the way we activate associations non-consciously to jog our memory?

• Priming

• Context-dependent memory

• Serial position effect

• State-dependent memory

What is the term for the phenomenon where our states and emotions serve as retrieval cues for memory?

• Serial position effect

• State-dependent memory

• Context-dependent memory

• Priming

What is the term for the effect where the first and last items on a list are more likely to be remembered than those in the middle?

• Priming

• Context-dependent memory

• Serial position effect

• Misinformation effect

What is the term for the natural forgetting of memories over time?

• Interference

• Encoding failure

• Retrieval failure

• Storage decay

What is the term for the phenomenon where old learning interferes with the recall of new information?

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Misinformation effect

• Source misattribution

Who is the psychologist known for showing how eyewitnesses can inadvertently tweak and reconstruct their memories?

• Nicholas Jenkins

• Michael Aranda

• Dr. Ranjit Bhagwat

• Elizabeth Loftus

What is the term for the effect where misleading information can alter a memory?

• Priming

• Serial position effect

• Misinformation effect

• Source misattribution

What is the term for the phenomenon where we forget or misrecall the source of a memory?

• Priming

• Serial position effect

• Misinformation effect

• Source misattribution

What is the term for the process of reconstructing and inferring involved when trying to recall a memory?

• Reconstruction

• Retrieval

• Encoding

• Interference