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GCSE Psychology - Memory #1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Visual

b)

Acoustic

c)

Semantic

d)

Tactile

2.

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

a)

Encoding, retrieval, storage

b)

Visual encoding, acoustic encoding, retrieval

c)

Encoding, storage, retrieval

d)

Encoding, recognition, retrieval

3.

The 3 types of long term memory are:

a)

Episodic, acoustic, semantic

b)

Visual, semantic, procedural

c)

Recognition, acoustic, episodic

d)

Episodic, semantic, procedural

4.

Which of the following type of long term memory is non-declarative?

a)

Episodic

b)

Acoustic

c)

Procedural

d)

Semantic

5.

'Coding is mostly acoustic and capacity is between 5 and 9 items'. Which memory store is being described?

a)

Short term memory

b)

Sensory memory

c)

Visual memory

d)

Long term memory

6.

Information gets into your long term memory through:

a)

Attention

b)

Visual encoding

c)

Rehearsal

d)

Recognition

7.

The dependent variable in Murdock's study was the:

a)

Position of the word in the list

b)

Probability of a word being correctly recalled

c)

Total number of words correctly recalled

d)

The number of participants involved

8.

A weakness of Murdock's serial position curve study was that:

a)

Ecological validity was low

b)

It was conducted as a laboratory experiment

c)

Words in the list were randomly selected

d)

There were several ethical issues

9.

Bartlett believed that memory is:

a)

Acoustic

b)

Procedural

c)

Reconstructive

d)

Declarative

10.

A weakness of Bartlett's 'War of the Ghosts' study is that:

a)

The were many ethical issues

b)

Participants were aware of the study so changed their behaviour

c)

The story was unusual so didn't reflect everyday memory processes

d)

The study was complete as field research

11.

Reconstructive memory suggests that:

a)

Memories are consistent over time

b)

Memories are always accurate

c)

Memories are acoustically encoded

d)

Memory is an active/changing process

12.

Bartlett called our attempt to make sense of small parts of memory:

a)

Effort after meaning

b)

The serial position effect

c)

The multi-store model

d)

Memory deconstruction

13.

Interference causes:

a)

Retrieval

b)

Forgetting

c)

Rehearsal

d)

Encoding

14.

The factor than can make interference the strongest is:

a)

Items being similar to each other

b)

The number things that you are trying to remember

c)

The size of the short term memory

d)

Items being different to each other

15.

In their work on context and memory, Godden & Baddeley studied:

a)

Fisherman

b)

Deep sea divers

c)

Lorry drivers

d)

Rugby players

16.

Context dependent memory suggests that:

a)

A cue will trigger accurate recall

b)

We remember more at home

c)

Our long term memory is limited

d)

We remember numbers more than letters

17.

In Loftus & Pickrell's famous study, participants were told that as children the had:

a)

Become lost in a shopping mall

b)

Fallen out of bed

c)

Bitten the dentist

d)

Kicked Father Christmas

18.

A weakness of planting false memories onto someone is that:

a)

It is not ecologically valid

b)

It is not ethical to do so

c)

It may not be effective

d)

They may not believe you

19.

'An old memory blocking a new memory' is a description of:

a)

Proactive interference

b)

False memory

c)

Retroactive interference

d)

Reconstructive memory

20.

A weakness of the multi-store memory model is that:

a)

There isn't evidence for different memory stores

b)

It doesn't explain mental blocks

c)

Long term memory has been found to be limited

d)

Some people have no short term memory