WorksheetsMemories - Good & Bad
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is sensory input?
something that a person can see, smell, touch, taste, or hear
an electric shock
a memory
a message from the brain that produces hormones
The passage describes ways that sensory input can help people access or "unlock" forgotten memories.
Which of the following describes evidence that sensory input can unlock a memory?
Your brain produces a hormone that tells you to run when you see a bear.
Marcel Proust ate a madeleine and recalled a large portion of his childhood.
You automatically move your foot away from a sharp object after stepping on that object.
You can remember what your mother's face looks like.
Behaving a certain way for an extended period of time can affect the way that our brains react to sensory input in the future.
What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?
writing a novel and remembering things from a long time ago
moving away from something that causes you pain automatically
feeling scared when you see something dangerous
a former soldier hearing a plane overhead and automatically producing adrenaline
Why are sense reactors important?
They tell your body to run away from bears.
They help make your memory stronger.
They are the way that your brain processes what's going on in the world around you.
They let your brain know which parts of your environment to ignore.
What is this passage mostly about?
the life of Marcel Proust
the way that our brains respond to sensory input
how soldiers acclimate to life at home after returning from war
how to unlock the hidden memories in your brain
The author uses a metaphor to compare human memory to something else.
What does the author compare human memory to?
a mansion with many rooms
a maze
a locked door
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.
Soldiers develop reactions that serve them extremely well in combat, ______, they may not be as useful when the soldiers return home.
instead
however
therefore
consequently
