Memory Processes Quiz

Which process of memory involves transforming information into a form that can be stored in the brain?

• Retrieval

• Encoding

• Storage

• Forgetting

What is the process called when the brain keeps information over time?

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Recognition

Which memory process is involved when accessing information stored in the long-term memory?

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Forgetting

What is the term for the phenomenon of forgetting information due to the passage of time?

• Decay

• Interference

• Encoding failure

• Retrieval failure

Which type of recall involves remembering items in any order?

• Serial recall

• Free recall

• Cued recall

• Recognition

The ability to identify previously encountered information among a list of options is known as:

• Recall

• Recognition

• Encoding

• Retrieval

Encoding information into memory involves which of the following types of processing?

• Shallow and deep

• Automatic and effortful

• Short-term and long-term

• Sensory and perceptual

The method of loci, a mnemonic device, is most closely associated with which memory process?

• Encoding

• Storage

• Retrieval

• Forgetting

Which type of memory storage can hold a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten?

• Sensory memory

• Short-term memory

• Long-term memory

• Working memory

Proactive interference in memory refers to when:

• New memories interfere with the recall of old memories.

• Old memories interfere with the recall of new memories.

• Information is lost over time due to decay.

• Information is not encoded properly.