Explanations of forgetting quiz

The four explanations of forgetting we have looked at in class are:

Reorder the following

• Trace decay often occurs in

• As the duration of these stores are

• quite short, information is likely

• to be lost without attention or rehearsal.

• sensory and short-term memory.

Peterson and Peterson (​ (a)   ), investigated the role of ​ (b)   by asking participants to remember sets of ​ (c)   Before recall, participants had to ​ (d)   . They found that information was generally forgotten after ​ (e)  

• 1959
• trace decay
• interference
• trigrams.
• numbers.
• count backwards in 3s
• carry out a maths task
• 30 seconds.
• 15 seconds.
• 45 seconds.

The explanation of forgetting related to interference suggests that we are more likely to forget / confuse information which is...

• complicated.

• similar to other stored information.

• encoded when distracted.

• large in volume.

Baddeley and Hitch (1974), found that the ​ (a)   rugby games, players had played, the ​ (b)   their recall of previous fixtures was. This is believed to be because the more games the players had played, the more opportunity there was for similar information to interfere with their memories.

• more
• less
• less accurate
• more accurate

Reorder the following

• occurs when

• Forgetting information due to an absence of cues

• find and retrieve information

• an individual struggles to

• which is stored within one's LTM.

Godden and Baddeley's study into context and location found that recall of a list of words increased by ... when carried out in the same location as learning.

Organize these studies into the correct category.

Groups:

(a) Absence of cues

,

(b) Trace decay

,

(c) Interference

,

(d) Brain damage

• Godden and Baddeley (1975)

• Peterson and Peterson (1959)

• The case study of HM

• Baddeley and Hitch (1974)

Fill in the blank... The ... is the area of the brain associated with the creation of new memories.

Select the correct descriptions...

• Retrograde amnesia - The loss of memory of anything that happened after the injury / incident, resulting in the inability to form new memories.

• Retrograde amnesia – The loss of pre-existing long-term memories from before the injury/incident.

• Anterograde amnesia - The loss of pre-existing long-term memories from before the injury/incident.

• Anterograde amnesia – The loss of memory of anything that happened after the injury/incident, resulting in the inability to form new memories.