GCSE Psychology - Memory Quiz

Bartlett believed that memory was: Acoustic, Procedural, Reconstructive, Declarative

• Acoustic

• Procedural

• Reconstructive

• Declarative

Not being able to remember an old phone number because you can only remember the new one is an example of:

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Memory decay

• Repression

The dependent variable in Murdock's study was:

• Total number of words correctly called

• Total number of words incorrectly called

• Total number of words presented

• Total number of words remembered

Some memories are stored in terms of their meaning. Which type of encoding is this?

• Acoustic

• Visual

• Semantic

• Tactile

Being able to recall words at the start of a list refers to:

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

• Serial position effect

• Chunking

Learning something by putting it to music is an example of:

• Acoustic encoding

• Visual encoding

• Semantic encoding

• Motor encoding

The three stages of the memory process (in the correct order) are:

• Encoding, storage, retrieval

• Visual encoding, acoustic encoding, retrieval

• Encoding, recognition, retrieval

• Encoding, storage, recognition

A weakness of the multi-store memory model is:

• It is far too simplistic, and doesn't explain all of our memories

• It accurately describes the process of memory retrieval

• It includes a detailed explanation of short-term memory

• It emphasizes the role of sensory memory in detail

Which factor doesn't affect memory: False memories, Context, Interference, Inference?

• False memories

• Context

• Interference

• Inference

Remembering how to perform actions is an example of:

• Declarative memory

• Episodic memory

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory