PSYCH203 // LECTURE 1 // SENSORY MEMORY

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Sensory Memory Quiz

Test your knowledge on sensory memory and short-term memory with this engaging quiz designed for psychology enthusiasts and students alike. Dive into the fascinating concepts of memory retention, recall, and the classic cases that shaped our understanding of cognitive processes.

  • 22 challenging questions
  • Multiple choice and checkbox formats
  • Score and learn as you progress!
22 Questions6 MinutesCreated by ThinkingMind317
Short term memory of young adults holds approximately how many items?
4
10
7
6
Information enters through the...
Sensory register
Eyes
Short-term memory
When searching STM, if search is serial, reaction times should be longer for larger memory sets
True
False
When searching STM If search is parallel, reaction times should be the same for all memory set sizes
True
False
Classic Case of H. M. (Henry M) Following an operation he displayed two types of amnesia: anterograde amnesia & ..........?
Gatorade amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Intograd amnesia
Gradetro amnesia
STM is also known as...
Primary memory
Secondary memory
Initial memory
First memory
The .............. Information stays in the STM buffer, the ......... The storage in LTM
Faster, quicker
Longer, better
Better, longer
Shorter, better
Repetition keeps info in STM and helps to transfer it to LTM, this is called....?
Maintenance rehearsal
Repetition rehearsal
Transfer theory
Precocious processing
For visual information we call the system....?
Sensory memory
Long-term memory
Iconic memory
Iconic memory
Within the first few milliseconds of visual memory a great deal of information is lost
True
False
Direct measures show..............
Informational persistence
visible persistence
Invisible persistence
Informative persistence
Indirect measures show
Informational persistence
visible persistence
Invisible persistence
Informative persistence
Echoic memory is similar to Iconic memory in that there is more information ................ Than can be ............
Present, remembered
Accessible, recalled
Forgotten, remembered
Echoic memory can be NOT masked
True
False
The only memories we are aware of are in....
Secondary memory
Primary Memory
Cake memory
Both A and B
Which practice is better for retention?
Distributed practice
Massed practice
Interval practice
Sleep before practice
A list of 80 nonsense syllables took 10 times as long to learn as a poem of equal length. This is an example of what?
Musical effect
Sentence effect
Meaningfulness effect
Subject effect
Memory span is organised in terms of chunks, what is a 'chunk'?
The largest memory a person can remember
The largest meaningful unit that a person recognizes
The biggest piece of cake that a person can remember eating
The largest chunk of words that a person can remember
Converting from one sense modalility to another is called what?
Photosynthesis
Sensibility
Sensornesia
Synaesthesia
Which kind of recall and recognition memory tasks, are easiest?
Recognition tasks
Free recall
Cued recall
Serial recall
Which kind of recall and recognition memory tasks, are most difficult?
Recognition tasks
Free recall
Cued recall
Serial recall
 
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