WorksheetsAP Psychology MEMORY pt. 1 The Basics
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called
a)
Generic Memory
b)
Procedural Memory
c)
Iconic Memory
d)
Flashbulb Memory
2.
Which memory task involves identifying objects encountered before?
a)
Recognition
b)
Recall
c)
Relearning
d)
Repression
3.
After looking up a phone number, Jim calls it, then forgets. The number was stored in his
a)
Short-Term Memory
b)
Long Term Memory
c)
Visual Memory
d)
Echoic Memory
4.
The process of filing information into your memory is...
a)
Chunking
b)
Encoding
c)
Retrieving
d)
Priming
5.
Our long-term memory capacity is
a)
In direct correlation to our age
b)
Varies greatly by gender
c)
Essentially limitless
d)
In direct correlation to our age
6.
______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.
a)
Recall
b)
Amnesia
c)
Storage
d)
Potential
7.
the persistence of learning over timethrough the storage and retrieval of information
a)
Encoding
b)
Memory
c)
Storage
d)
Relearning
8.
the process of getting information out of memory storage.
a)
recall
b)
rehearsal
c)
priming
d)
retrieval
9.
translation of information into a form to be stored and recovered
a)
Schema
b)
Encoding
c)
Recognition
d)
Icons
10.
Short term memory is limited to about ___ items
a)
3
b)
5
c)
7
d)
0
11.
Unconscious encoding of information that occurs without interfering with our thinking about other things.
a)
encoding
b)
automatic processing
c)
effortful processing
12.
The process of putting information into the memory system.
a)
memorization
b)
learning
c)
encoding
13.
1st Stage of Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory model..includes iconic and echoic memories that last only few seconds unless we pay attention.
a)
sensory memory
b)
short-term memory
c)
working memory
d)
long-term memory
14.
2nd stage in the Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Model. Information stays here 15-30 seconds unless we REHEARSE to encode it.
a)
short-term memory
b)
long-term memory
c)
LTP
d)
the bathroom
15.
3rd Stage of the Atkinson Shiffrin memory model. Information is transferred here when one REHEARSES. Info can stay here forever possibly.
a)
long-term memory
b)
short-term memory
c)
working memory
d)
the kitchen
16.
The tendency for people remember best words from the first part of a list and the last part of a list, while most likely forgetting words in the middle.
a)
serial position effect
b)
list learning lament
c)
spacing effect
d)
crazy sauce
17.
Frank asked Mary what she had for dinner last night. Mary quickly replied: "Pizza". Mary likely remembers the fact that she had pizza do to ________
memory processing.
memory processing.
a)
automatic
b)
effortful
c)
food frenzy
d)
none of these
18.
To study her terms for Anatomy, Shania makes flash cards the first day of a chapter. She then studies them for 20 minutes each day. Shania is using ___
memory processing.
memory processing.
a)
effortful
b)
automatic
c)
method of loci
d)
PEG word
19.
Research shows that if we distribute our practice over multiple days, we will increase our retention. This is referred to as the:
a)
spacing effect
b)
serial position effect
c)
Method of Loci
d)
Mnemoncs
20.
There is a tendency when trying to remember the words in a list to forget the words ________ most often.
a)
in the middle
b)
at the end
c)
at the beginning
21.
When we rehearse (study) information with the intent to retain that information, we are engaging in ______processing.
a)
effortful
b)
automatic
22.
What type of memory is theoretically unlimited in capacity?
a)
Echoic Memory
b)
Short-term Memory
c)
Working Memory
d)
Long-Term Memory
23.
You forgot your grocery list at home and are trying to remember what you need. Unfortunately you can only recall the first 4 items on the list. This illustrates the impact of
a)
Automatic processing
b)
Parallel processing
c)
Flashbulb memory
d)
The serial position effect
24.
The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve indicates that how well we remember information depends on
a)
whether proactive interference occurred.
b)
If you were happy when you encoded the information.
c)
how long ago we learned that information.
d)
If the information was encoded by shallow processing.
25.
What is the information processing model (aka what 3 things do we need to do to remember an event?)
a)
Encode, store, retrieve
b)
Sensory, short-term, long-term
26.
How is memory defined in Psychology?
a)
the conscious encoding of information.
b)
stored knowledge that has been semantically encoded.
c)
the persistence of learning through the storage and retrieval of information.
d)
recalling and retrieving information stored in the cerebral cortex.
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