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WorksheetsMemory INTRO Psychology Baxer
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 3600secs
The process of getting information into your memory is...
4 items
9 items
12 items
Memory in which the person must retrieve information, as on an essay or a fill-in-the-blank test, without any cues (clues).
recall
memory
rehearsal
recognition
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. For example, you remember your new math teacherś name, but can not remember the one from last year.
proactive interference
retroactive interference
serial position effect
spacing effect
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second.
iconic memory
implicit memory
echoic memory
working memory
This type of memory has a limited capacity and can store unrehearsed information for about 2-30 sec.
According to the spacing effect, which of the following study methods would work best?
explaining psychology to someone that hasn't taken the class
learning psychology by rereading your notebook
studying psychology everyday for 1 hour a day in the week leading to the test
studying psychology for an hour before a test
Our memory for skills, such as riding a bike.
declarative memory
explicit memory
echoic memory
procedural memory
Memory of facts is to ____ as memory of skills is to _________.
Non-Declarative; Declarative
Declarative ; Procedural
Automatic processing; effortful processing
Motor memory; episodic memory
This memory hold the sounds that we hear for about 1-4 seconds
Echoic memory
Iconic memory
Working memory
Long-term memory
This type of memory is also known as working memory?
sensory memory
primacy
short-term memory
long-term memory
The act of filling in memory gaps with what makes sense but may not be true.
confabulation
chunking
storage
encoding
What type of memory makes it possible for you to watch a movie without noticing the gaps between the frames?
semantic memory
iconic memory
episodic memory
echoic memory
Someone is playing a song on a piano that you have heard before. You are able to identify this song as one you have heard because of which process?
recognition
reconstruction
recaall
confabulation
Remembering the first items on a list, better than than middle or last ones is due to
the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
redintegration
primacy effect
recency effect
Which of the following is NOT one of the top priorities when in comes to memory?
Survival
Interesting
Simple
Weird/Novel
The inability to recall past events.
Retrograde Amnesia
Anterograde Amnesia
Confabulation
State Dependent
Getting nervous and blanking on a test, that you really studied for, can best be explained by
Confabulation
Memory Decay
State Dependent Memory
Context Dependent Memory
The best advice you can give to a person who wants to remember information is
¨Pull an all-nighter.¨
¨Just keep rereading the information.¨
¨Try forming meaningful associations.¨
¨Study without taking breaks.¨
The long-term memory theory that suggests that we make associations among information-- we create links among thousands of nodes (files), which make up a gigantic interconnected network.
Connectionist Theory
Web Theory
Neural Activation Theory
Cognitive Theory
This method of remembering requires you to visual a place you are familiar with and to place items that you need to remember in that place.
Connectionist Theory
Place Theory
Loci Method
Self Reference Effect
The name for traumatic memories/events are pushed deep into the unconscious. These memories cannot be retrieved at will, but may influence our behavior and perceptions.
Episodic
Repressed
Confabulated
Condensation
Occurs when misleading information is incorporated into one's memory after an event. For example a police officers leading question could alter your memory.
Recency Effect
Misinformation Effect
Self-Reference Effect
Flynn Effect
Your ability to type without looking at the keyboard is a result of your
Declarative memory
Explicit Memory
Episodic Memory
Implicit Memory
A type of declarative memory that includes, names, faces, concepts, facts, etc. not tied to a particular place and time.
Episodic
Implicit
Semantic
Procedural
Your friend asks you if you studied for the psychology test, and you respond by saying ¨What did you say?¨but right before he could speak you say ¨Yes, I studied. I want to finish the year strong." What explains this?
Recency Effect
Connectionist Theory
Echoic Memory
The Flynn Effect
The process of obtaining information that has been stored in memory
encoding
retrieval
chunking
recognition
The blocking of memories by previous or subsequent memories is called?
confabulation
decay
interference
episodic
The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember
encoding
recognition
chunking
episodic
A type of amnesia in which a person is unable to recall their past?
Anterograde
Retrograde
Chronic
Potentiation
The memories of important events in one's life, like birthdays, funerals, graduation, etc.
semantic
episodic
implicit
explicit
Which of the following type of memory is non-declarative?
Episodic
Explicit
Procedural
Semantic
According to the Loci Method, our strongest type of memory is
Auditory
Visual
Echoic
Proactive
Infantile Amnesia implies that we cannot consciously remember declarative memories prior to age
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
Mike took Spanish in high school and college, but hasn't spoken it in over 25 years. His forgetting Spanish is most likely due to
Anterograde Amnesia
Law of Disuse
Confabulation
Retroactive Interference
Alzheimer's Disease is classified as a form of
Schizophrenia
Amnesia
Repression
Dementia
One of the best ways to remember something is to somehow relate it to yourself. This is known as the
Egocentric Effect
Me Too Effect
Self-Reference Effect
Primacy Effect
When traumatic events are unconsciously forgotten.
Spacing Effect
Suppression
Repression
Confabulation
Wanda really studied hard for the Memory Test. While taking the test, she became nervous and couldn't remember much of the information she actually knew. Her "blanking" was most likely due to
Law of Disuse
Proactive Interference
State Dependant Memory
Context Dependant Memory
Mike took Spanish in high school and college, but hasn't spoken it in over 25 years. However, after spending a month in Spain last summer, he was surprised at how quickly he was able to speak it again. This was most likely due to
The Relearning Effect
The Law of Disuse
Confabulation
The Spacing Effect
False and repressed memories
Sensory memory
Which of the following are most likely to be stored in episodic long-term memory
Memories for facts such as 'Elizabeth Loftus is a psychologist.'
Memories of events that have happened to us at various times, involving other people and places.
Our knowledge of what words mean.
Memories of our skilled actions, such as being able to play the guitar.
Which of the following statements is the best definition of eyewitness testimony?
Our ability to remember such things as facts and figures
How people remember the details of events they have observed themselves, such as crimes and accidents
Our memories for people's names and faces
Memories that last for weeks, months or even years.
Which of the following is the best example of a leading question asked by police to an eyewitness of a car accident?
Can you please describe the car accident you witnessed?
It looks to us that the driver of the Honda Civic is to blame. Do you agree?
Who do you think is at fault here?
Can you give us as much detail as possible concerning exactly what you saw?
working
photographic, or picture-image, memory that lasts for only a few tenths of a second
