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WorksheetsUnderstanding Memory
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
What is the first step in the memory process?
Retrieval
Sensory
long term
short term
Which type of memory is responsible for holding information temporarily for processing?
Long-term memory
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Procedural memory
Identify a strategy that can be used to improve memory retention.
Multitasking
Cramming
Chunking
Skipping sleep
Explain how rehearsal can aid in transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory.
Rehearsal increases the capacity of short-term memory.
Rehearsal helps in encoding information more deeply.
Rehearsal eliminates the need for retrieval cues.
Rehearsal reduces the interference from other memories.
Differentiate between explicit and implicit memory with an example for each.
Explicit memory involves skills; implicit memory involves facts.
Explicit memory involves facts; implicit memory involves skills.
Explicit memory involves emotions; implicit memory involves facts.
Explicit memory involves skills; implicit memory involves emotions.
Which of the following factors can negatively affect memory?
Adequate sleep
Stress
Regular exercise
Healthy diet
Describe the role of emotions in flashbulb memories.
Emotions negatively impact flashbulb memories
Emotions enhance flashbulb memories, enhancing memory
emotions prevent memory decay.
Emotions speed up decay of the memory
What is the primary difference between short-term and long-term memory in terms of duration?
Short-term memory lasts for years; long-term memory lasts for seconds.
Short-term memory lasts for seconds; long-term memory lasts for years.
Short-term memory lasts for minutes; long-term memory lasts for hours.
Short-term memory lasts for hours; long-term memory lasts for minutes.
What best describes working memory?
lIke a sticky notes in the brain, information to hold onto for only a few seconds
Processing center
organizing information into categories
visualizing information as images
Which of the following is an example of procedural memory?
Remembering your first day at school
Knowing how to ride a bicycle
Recalling the capital of France
Recognizing a familiar face
What is the ability to easily retrieve information that is familiar called?
Recall
Repression
Recognition
Amnesia
Which type of memory is influenced by being in the same state of mind as when the memory was processed?
Spatial Memory
State-Dependent Memory
Recognition Memory
Proactive Interference
What is the term for the inability to retrieve information prior to brain damage?
Anterograde Amnesia
Proactive Interference
Recognition
Retrograde Amnesia
What is the term for new information interfering with the ability to retrieve older information?
Retroactive Interference
Recognition
Proactive Interference
Repression
What is the process called when memories that are traumatic are pushed into the unconscious?
Recognition
Decay
Repression
Amnesia
Which type of memory involves recalling information based on location?
Spatial Memory
State-Dependent Memory
Recognition Memory
Proactive Interference
Repressing information
lets you retrieve for later
causes you to remember it more
lets you know somethings going well
Blocks it out
What is memory
Saving information
Saving and retrieving information
Retrieving information
something
Implicit memories
Memories you have to think about
you cant remember new info
You forget your childhood
Memories you know without thinking
Automatic Processing
Happens without thinking
needs thinking to happen
happens in the short term memroy
Happens in the long term memory
Effortful Processing
Requires Conscious thinking
Requires no thinking
is a type of forgetting
memory decay
Algorithm problem solving
Step-by step; guaranteed to work
A mental shortcut
memory retrieval
memory decay
Heurestics
Mental decay
Mental Shortcut; baking cookies without a recipe
an ancient greek term
a store
Inductive and deductive reasoning
Inductive: Top down
Deductive:bottom up thiking
Inductive:specific details
deductive: general
Inductive specific detail-general conclusions
Deductive: general details-specific conlcusions
Inductive-heat
deductive-cold
Convergent vs Divergent thinking
Convergent thinking focuses on finding a single correct solution, while divergent thinking emphasizes generating multiple ideas/solutions
Mental Set is
having An open mind
A way to find new answers by using new methods
A math problem which requires long division
Sticking to a familiar method of problem solving no matter what
Learned helplessness is?
A method of teaching ways to give up for children.
A theory about the benefits of competition.
A condition where individuals feel powerless to change their circumstances and often give up.
what is Functional Fixedness?
it is a cognitive bias that forces you to be unable to see another use for an item
Overconfidence bias:
Gardeners multiple intelligences
Sternbergs triarchic theory
Spearman's General intelligence:
IQ test is related to which intelligence theory
Aptitude test are related to which intelligence theory
How does the modern view of intelligence differ from the Traditional view?
The modern view of intelligence includes multiple intelligences while the traditional view is more narrow and focused on cognitive skills through IQ tests.
