PSYCH203 // LECTURE 1 // SENSORY MEMORY

A visually engaging illustration depicting different types of memory, including sensory memory, short-term memory, with elements like icons representing visual and auditory information.

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
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22 Questions6 MinutesCreated by ThinkingMind317

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

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

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

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