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MEMORY: Modules 31,32, 33

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The correct order of memory to get in and back out of our brains is:

a)

storage, encoding, sensory, working, long-term, retrieval

b)

sensory, working, encoding, long-term, storage, retrieval

c)

working, sensory, encoding, long-term, storage, retrieval

d)

storage, retrieval, working, long-term, encoding, sensory

2.

_________________ encoding involves items that get into our brain without our conscious awareness while ___________________ encoding requires attention, deep processing, and repetition to remember the items.

a)

Effortful; automatic

b)

Automatic; cerebellum

c)

Automatic; effortful

d)

Hippocampus; cerebellum

3.

Memories are converted to long-term storage by the ________________ within the brain.

a)

amygdala

b)

hypothalamus

c)

hippcampus

d)

thalamus

4.

This mnemonic involves placing items to remember around a familiar place (aka Memory Palace):

a)

chunking

b)

peg words

c)

hierarchies

d)

method of loci

5.

This mnemonic creates smaller bits of information from larger items, so there is less to remember:

a)

peg words

b)

chunking

c)

loci

d)

spacing

6.

Spreading out your studying to 15 minutes/night for 8 nights instead of 2 hours of cramming right before the test:

a)

Spacing Effect

b)

Next-in-Line Effect

c)

Serial Position Effect

d)

Self-reference Effect

7.

A type of semantic encoding that involves using examples from your own life to help you create meaning:

a)

primacy effect

b)

recency effect

c)

symbolic effect

d)

self-reference effect

8.

The order of powerful ways to effortfully encode from least powerful to most powerful:

a)

semantic encoding, visual encoding, acoustic encoding

b)

visual encoding, acoustic encoding, semantic encoding

c)

acoustic encoding, semantic encoding, visual encoding

d)

visual encoding, semantic encoding, visual encoding

9.

Going through questions at the end of each book section to check your knowledge is also known as:

a)

questions effect

b)

reviewing effect

c)

rehearsal effect

d)

testing effect

10.

Forgetting can occur at:

a)

the encoding stage

b)

the storage stage

c)

the retrieval stage

d)

all of the other three answers

11.

When you have put something in long-term, but can't quite get it out, this is known as the T.O.T. or:

a)

tip of the top phenomenon

b)

tip of the tip phenomenon

c)

tip of the tongue phenomenon

d)

tip of the thumb phenomenon

12.

When you call out your former girlfriend's/boyfriend's name instead of the person you are currently seeing:

a)

retroactive interference

b)

proactive interference

c)

anterograde interference

d)

prograde interference

13.

When a person forgets where they were first exposed to information or images, and attributes the memory incorrectly:

a)

anterograde amnesia

b)

source amnesia

c)

retrograde amnesia

d)

source decay

14.

People who were asked "How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?" recall more broken glass at the accident than was actually there, due to

a)

misinformation effect.

b)

misattribution effect.

c)

false memories.

d)

misidentification effect.

15.

The memory researcher who created The Forgetting Curve was:

a)

Loftus

b)

Wundt

c)

Ebbinghaus

d)

Freud