Standard Psychology - Memory Quiz

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

Which of the following memories happen with conscious awareness?

• Implicit Memories
• Episodic Memories
• Procedural Memories
• Repressive Memories

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

• Sensory Memory
• Short Term Memory
• Working Memory
• Long Term Memory

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

Which of the following is not a method to encode information?

• Chunking

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Selective Attention

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

• Having a strong emotional experience to a memory.
• Spaced Practice
• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Mass Practice

Which brain part is responsible for facilitating explicit memories?

• brain stem
• cerebellum
• amygdala
• hippocampus

Which of the following is not true of Ebbinghaus' Curve of forgetting?

• The x axis is the passage of time.

• Severe decay occurs in the first few hours.

• People retain 50% of information after 30 days.

• The y axis is the amount of information retained.

Which memory system is involved in the conscious recollection of facts and events?

• Implicit Memory

• Explicit Memory

• Procedural Memory

• Sensory Memory

What is the term for the mental process of grouping similar items together to enhance memory retention?

• Chunking

• Clustering

• Categorization

• Association