WorksheetsChapter 6 Test (Memory)
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 24mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?
a)
pain of a broken leg
b)
riding a bicycle
c)
learning the days of the week
d)
playing the piano
2.
How long is information retained in the short-term memory?
a)
fraction of a second
b)
ten to twelve seconds
c)
four minutes
d)
fifteen minutes
3.
Which is the easiest of the three basic memory tasks?
a)
recall
b)
recognition
c)
relearning
d)
chunking
4.
What factors are part of normal forgetting?
a)
maintenance and elaborative rehearsals
b)
interference and decay
c)
repression and amnesia
d)
chunking and schemas
5.
Organization of items into familiar or manageable units
a)
eidetic imagery
b)
recall
c)
iconic memory
d)
chunking
6.
The second memory task, bringing something back to mind.
a)
eidetic imagery
b)
recall
c)
iconic memory
d)
chunking
7.
Ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time
a)
eidetic imagery
b)
recall
c)
iconic memory
d)
chunking
8.
First stage of information storage, the immediate, initial recording of data
a)
repression
b)
Recall
c)
sensory memory
d)
echoic memory
9.
Loss of ability to remember events leading up to a traumatic event
a)
retrograde amnesia
b)
anterograde amnesia
c)
recency effect
d)
repression
10.
Loss of ability to store new memories, particularly after trauma to the brain
a)
retrograde amnesia
b)
anterograde amnesia
c)
primacy effect
d)
repression
11.
Unconscious forgetting of painful or unpleasant memories
a)
retrograde amnesia
b)
anterograde amnesia
c)
recency effect
d)
repression
12.
Another name for working memory is _______________________.
a)
Faulty Memory
b)
Sensory Memory
c)
Short Term Memory
d)
Long Term Memory
13.
The relatively permanent area of memory
a)
Faulty Memory
b)
Sensory Memory
c)
Short Term Memory
d)
Long Term Memory
14.
The brief memory system that mainly deals with sensory information.
a)
Faulty Memory
b)
Sensory Memory
c)
Short Term Memory
d)
Long Term Memory
15.
The fading away of a memory over time is called _______________________.
a)
Decay
b)
Displacement
c)
Amnesia
d)
Interference
16.
Encoding is the process of converting a physical stimulus received through the senses into a psychological format that can be represented mentally.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
It is easier to remember a spoken list than a visual one. (Acoustic is stronger than visual)
a)
True
b)
False
18.
Memory and Meaning are best friends and go hand in hand as we attempt to comprehend things.
a)
True
b)
False
19.
The process of getting information into memory systems.
a)
Retrieval
b)
Rehearsal
c)
Storage
d)
Encoding
20.
The process of retaining encoded information over time.
a)
Retrieval
b)
Rehearsal
c)
Storage
d)
Encoding
21.
The process of getting information out of memory storage.
a)
Retrieval
b)
Rehearsal
c)
Storage
d)
Encoding
22.
Conscious repetition of information
a)
Retrieval
b)
Rehearsal
c)
Storage
d)
Encoding
23.
Sam was reading a book and a teacher asked him a question. He stopped reading and was going to ask the teacher to repeat the question, but then recalled the teacher’s exact words. What type of memory allowed for this recall?
a)
Iconic memory
b)
Echoic memory
c)
Semantic memory
d)
Long-term memory
24.
A detailed and emotionally significant memory is called a.
a)
Flashbulb memory
b)
Semantic memory
c)
Eidetic memory
d)
Echoic memory
25.
Type of memory that requires cognitive effort to recall (Semantic and Episodic are a part of it)
a)
Sensory memory
b)
Implicit memory
c)
Explicit memory
d)
Echoic memory
26.
Type of memory that requires no real cognitive effort. to recall. Remembering how to throw a ball.
a)
Sensory memory
b)
Implicit memory
c)
Explicit memory
d)
Echoic memory
27.
While driving to school, Harper is talking to a friend with the radio playing. Later on in the day she starts humming the melody of the new song that was playing while she was driving to school. This is an example of:
a)
Effortful processing
b)
Automatic processing
c)
Sensory memory
d)
Flashbulb memory
28.
Benjamin spent an entire week learning all of the words for his Spanish test. Each night he reviewed his words for 20 minutes instead of trying to cram the night before. The new technique helped Benjamin score higher than he ever did before. This is known as...
a)
Deep processing
b)
Context effect
c)
Serial position effect
d)
Spacing effect
29.
Wendy struggles to remember here shopping list except for the first and last thing she wrote down. This memory effect is known as
a)
Deep processing
b)
Context effect
c)
Serial position effect
d)
Spacing effect
30.
Jayden met his future roommate for college and exchanged cellphone numbers. Jayden quickly took the numbers and put them into groups to help him remember it, since he forgot his phone in his car. What process was he using to help him remember.
a)
Chunking
b)
Peg-Word System
c)
Link Method
d)
The Method of Loci
31.
Involves imagining moving through a familiar series of locations with items to be remembered
a)
Chunking
b)
Peg-Word System
c)
Link Method
d)
The Method of Loci
32.
Involves forming a mental image of multiple items, to be remembered, in a way that connects to one another
a)
Chunking
b)
Peg-Word System
c)
Link Method
d)
The Method of Loci
33.
Which psychologist is known for her research on memory and its implications for eyewitness testimony and false memories?
a)
Elizabeth Loftus
b)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
c)
Abraham Maslow
d)
Ivan Pavlov
34.
This philosopher and psychologist conducted experiments on memory and came up with the forgetting curve.
a)
Elizabeth Loftus
b)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
c)
Abraham Maslow
d)
Ivan Pavlov
35.
Solomon has an enhanced ability to retrieve information when he is in the same location and at the same emotional state that he was when he first encoded a memory. This is an example of:
a)
Serial position effect
b)
State-dependent memory
c)
Implicit memory
d)
Sensory memory
36.
This is an eerie phenomenon where one senses that they have experienced what they are currently experiencing, before.
a)
Source amnesia
b)
Misinformation effect
c)
Déjà vu
d)
Anterograde amnesia
37.
When an older memory interrupts the recall of a newer memory, this type of interference is taking place.
a)
Proactive interference
b)
Retroactive interference
c)
Effortful interference
d)
Retrograde interference
38.
This type of amnesia leading to the inability to form new memories.
a)
Retrograde amnesia
b)
Short-term amnesia
c)
Proactive amnesia
d)
Anterograde amnesia
39.
When one has incorrect or misleading information distort one’s memory, they are experiencing this.
a)
Misinformation effect
b)
Context effect
c)
Reconsolidation
d)
Proactive interference
40.
Tip of the Tongue effect is a problem with which of the following stages of memory.
a)
Sensory
b)
Encoding
c)
Storage
d)
Retreveal
41.
This type of memory is resistant to forgetting and will most likely last in one’s memory for a lifetime.
a)
Sensory memories
b)
Episodic memories
c)
Explicit memories
d)
Permastore memories
42.
A memory from our own personal life is a
a)
Echoic Memory
b)
Prospective Memory
c)
Episodic Memory
d)
Semantic Memory
43.
Our memory for skills, such as riding a bike.
a)
implicit memory
b)
explicit memory
c)
echoic memory
d)
iconic memory
44.
What is the process of maintaining information over time called?
a)
Rehearsal
b)
Retrieval
c)
Storage
d)
Encoding
45.
Which type of memory is involved in recalling facts and general knowledge?
a)
Procedural Memory
b)
Implicit Memory
c)
Semantic Memory
d)
Episodic Memory
46.
What is the term for the phenomenon where old information interferes with the recall of new information?
a)
Repression
b)
Decay
c)
Proactive Interference
d)
Retroactive Interference
47.
Which type of memory is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing?
a)
Working Memory
b)
Sensory Memory
c)
Long Term Memory
d)
Implicit Memory
48.
Which of the following is an example of procedural memory?
a)
Recalling the capital of France
b)
Recognizing a familiar face
c)
Remembering your first day at school
d)
Knowing how to play the piano
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