Memory Assessment Quiz

State-dependent memories are retrieved

• A person is in a particular mood

• Memories are on the tip of the tongue

• Memories are of positive events

• A person is in a particular location

How long is information retained in the short-term memory?

• Ten to twelve seconds

• Fraction of a second

• Four minutes

• Fifteen minutes

What must happen in order to remember information for more than a short while?

• Information must be stored as echoic memory

• Information must be transferred from working to long-term memory

• Memories must be recorded as iconic memory

• Memories must be moved from short-term memory to sensory memory

What best describes long-term memory?

• Ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time

• Recollection of initial items in a series rather than later items

• Final stage of information storage

• First stage of information storage

How do schemas impact long-term memory?

• Schemas allow people to accurately remember visual stimuli

• Schemas keep memories vivid and accurate

• Schemas increase the capacity of memory

• Schemas influence the ways people store what they perceive

Why do people not store all of their experiences permanently?

• Long-term memory space is limited

• Only important memories are stored long-term

• Maintenance rehearsal is less effective than elaborative rehearsal

• Memory is limited by the amount of attention we pay to things

What is the easiest of the three basic memory tasks?

• Recognition

• Recall

• Relearning

• Chunking

What is true about the ability to recall information?

• Recall drops rapidly in the first hour

• Recall is 90 percent after the first 20 minutes

• Recall is easier than recognition

• Recall is more difficult than relearning

What did Hermann Ebbinghaus discover about the process of relearning?

• The memory of relearned information does not fade away

• Relearning something takes less time than learning it the first time

• The relearning process is more useful than recognition

• Relearning something depends on knowing nonsense syllables

What factors are part of normal forgetting?

• Maintenance and elaborative rehearsals

• Repression and amnesia

• Interference and decay

• Chunking and schema