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Memory

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How long does information in short term memory last?

a)

several days

b)

several minutes

c)

several seconds

d)

several hours

2.

What's the process that locates stored information and brings it back into consciousness?

a)

retrieval

b)

storage

c)

encoding

d)

interference

3.

What is memory in which people recall events in great detail called?

a)

semantic memory

b)

flashbulb memory

c)

iconic memory

d)

implicit memory

4.

What is chunking?

a)

elaboration of info into STM storage to LTM

b)

process of passing info from sensory to STM

c)

storage process of info in the LTM

d)

method to increase amount of info you can hold in your STM

5.

General knowledge that is not tied to where the info was learned is called _______ memory.

a)

episodic

b)

semantic/generic

c)

procedural

d)

implicit

6.

ROY G BIV is a fictional name used to remember the colors in a rainbow. It's an example of _________.

a)

the method of loci

b)

a mnemonic device

c)

working memory

d)

memoranda

7.

What are the 3 stages of memory in order?

a)

Long term, short term, sensory

b)

short term, long term, sensory

c)

sensory, short term, long term

d)

sensory, long term, short term

8.

Ty had an accident causing brain damage. He's lost memory for all events AFTER his accident. What's his type of amnesia?

a)

retrograde

b)

anterograde

c)

primary

d)

secondary

9.

How many items can the average person hold from a list in their short-term memory?

a)

five items

b)

seven items

c)

eight items

d)

nine items

10.

Chunking, mnemonics, and rehearsal are all ways of ____________________ information.

a)

relearning

b)

encoding

c)

retrieving

d)

priming

11.

Facts learned in classes at school become part of the____________.

a)

iconic memories

b)

procedural memories

c)

generic/semantic memories

d)

episodic memories

12.

Rob was in a car accident & now can’t remember anything new, only stuff prior. What part of the brain has been affected?

a)

amygdala

b)

prefrontal cortex

c)

hippocampus

d)

thalamus

13.

Sad feelings that trigger memories of another sad time are an example of ____________.

a)

state-dependent memory

b)

echoic memory

c)

context-dependent memory

d)

sensory memory

14.

What is the ability to recall the last items in a series called?

a)

sensory memory

b)

visual codes

c)

hypnosis

d)

recency effect

15.

You are driving and see a billboard with the phone number of an auto service you need. You keep repeating the number to keep what process from happening?

a)

construction

b)

deductive interference

c)

decay

d)

proactive interference

16.

Computers and people both handle information using the process of _____, _____, _______.

a)

recognition, storage, and retrieval

b)

encoding, storage, and retrieval

c)

encoding, storage, and forgetting

d)

encoding, storage, and retrieval

17.

Ryan can remember quite vividly the first time his dad took him out to learn how to ride a bike, because he didn’t use training wheels and took a nasty spill, scraping his knee badly.  This would best be described as a(n) ______ memory.

a)

implicit

b)

episodic

c)

procedural

d)

semantic

18.

Remembering what the word summer means requires ______________ memory, while remembering what you did on July 4th, 1996, requires ______________ memory

a)

episodic; semantic

b)

episodic; procedural

c)

procedural; episodic

d)

semantic; episodic

19.

Flashbulb memories are so vivid because they_________.

a)

recall events with special meanings

b)

are not recalled very often

c)

involve learning skills that are never forgotten

d)

do all of the above

20.

In order to remember information for a long period of time, facts must be _____________.

a)

stored as echoes

b)

stored as icons

c)

transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory

d)

moved from short-term memory to sensory memory

21.

Burt B. was in an accident that damaged his brain.  Now he has lost his memory for all events occurring before his accident. Burt's accident has resulted in _______ amnesia.

a)

retrograde

b)

primary

c)

anterograde

d)

secondary

22.

Studying for a test in the same room in which it will be held may result in a better grade because of _____________.

a)

iconic memory

b)

state-dependent memory

c)

context-dependent memory

d)

eidetic memory

23.

Cameron was trying to learn the new plays his new basketball coach had devised for the team. Unfortunately, Cameron found he was having trouble learning the new plays because he kept confusing them with the plays he had learned with his old coach last season. Cameron is experiencing __________ interference.

a)

retroactive

b)

proactive

c)

anterograde

d)

savings