Crash Course: Remembering and Forgetting Quiz

What is NOT a way that we forget things according to the text?

• Memory overload

• Retrieval failure

• Encoding failure

• Storage decay

What effect explains why eyewitnesses might not be reliable?

• The serial position effect

• The recency effect

• The primacy effect

• The misinformation effect

What can serve as retrieval cues according to the text?

• The exact time of the crime

• The color of the thief's shoes

• The number of witnesses present

• The weather and songs on the radio

What is 'priming' referred to in the context of memory?

• The initial stage of encoding a memory

• The process of intentionally forgetting information

• A way of activating associations non-consciously

• A technique to improve short-term memory

What phenomenon is described when you can't recall a memory despite feeling it's on the tip of your tongue?

• Retrieval failure

• Proactive interference

• Storage decay

• Encoding failure

What type of interference occurs when new learning gets in the way of recalling old information?

• Misinformation effect

• Serial position effect

• Retroactive interference

• Proactive interference

According to the text, what percentage of U.S. prisoners exonerated based on DNA evidence were convicted by mistaken eyewitnesses?

• 60 percent

• 85 percent

• 75 percent

• 50 percent

What is NOT listed as a reason for the unreliability of human memory in the text?

• Suggestions of outside sources

• The clarity of the memory

• The retelling of events

• The influence of emotions