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WorksheetsMEMORY: Modules 31,32, 33
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The correct order of memory to get in and back out of our brains is:
storage, encoding, sensory, working, long-term, retrieval
sensory, working, encoding, long-term, storage, retrieval
working, sensory, encoding, long-term, storage, retrieval
storage, retrieval, working, long-term, encoding, sensory
_________________ encoding involves items that get into our brain without our conscious awareness while ___________________ encoding requires attention, deep processing, and repetition to remember the items.
Effortful; automatic
Automatic; cerebellum
Automatic; effortful
Hippocampus; cerebellum
Memories are converted to long-term storage by the ________________ within the brain.
amygdala
hypothalamus
hippcampus
thalamus
This mnemonic involves placing items to remember around a familiar place (aka Memory Palace):
chunking
peg words
hierarchies
method of loci
This mnemonic creates smaller bits of information from larger items, so there is less to remember:
peg words
chunking
loci
spacing
Spreading out your studying to 15 minutes/night for 8 nights instead of 2 hours of cramming right before the test:
Spacing Effect
Next-in-Line Effect
Serial Position Effect
Self-reference Effect
A type of semantic encoding that involves using examples from your own life to help you create meaning:
primacy effect
recency effect
symbolic effect
self-reference effect
The order of powerful ways to effortfully encode from least powerful to most powerful:
semantic encoding, visual encoding, acoustic encoding
visual encoding, acoustic encoding, semantic encoding
acoustic encoding, semantic encoding, visual encoding
visual encoding, semantic encoding, visual encoding
Going through questions at the end of each book section to check your knowledge is also known as:
questions effect
reviewing effect
rehearsal effect
testing effect
Forgetting can occur at:
the encoding stage
the storage stage
the retrieval stage
all of the other three answers
When you have put something in long-term, but can't quite get it out, this is known as the T.O.T. or:
tip of the top phenomenon
tip of the tip phenomenon
tip of the tongue phenomenon
tip of the thumb phenomenon
When you call out your former girlfriend's/boyfriend's name instead of the person you are currently seeing:
retroactive interference
proactive interference
anterograde interference
prograde interference
When a person forgets where they were first exposed to information or images, and attributes the memory incorrectly:
anterograde amnesia
source amnesia
retrograde amnesia
source decay
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
misinformation effect.
misattribution effect.
false memories.
misidentification effect.
The memory researcher who created The Forgetting Curve was:
Loftus
Wundt
Ebbinghaus
Freud
