Remembering and Forgetting

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Memory Mastery Quiz

Test your understanding of how we remember and forget! This quiz features 10 engaging questions designed to challenge your knowledge on the processes of memory, including retention, encoding, and recall.

Multiple choice and drop-list format
Designed for students and enthusiasts alike
Improve your memory skills while having fun!

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ThinkingNerd42

Caitlin, a fifth grader, is asked to remember her second-grade teacher's name. What measure of retention will Caitlin use to answer this question?

Recall

Recognition

Storage

Relearning

In history class, James is effortfully connecting the new material to what he has learned in the past. This making of connections in the moment best describes James'?

Working memory

Sensory memory

Iconic memory

Long-term memory

Meloni's new friend from another state just gave her his phone number. As she goes to enter the number into her contacts list, she finds that she cannot remember all the numbers in the right order. Which of the following is the best explanation for this failure?

Because the number was so short, she didn't pay enough attention

She was so excited that she could not type the numbers fast enough.

Being 10 digits , the number is beyond the "magic number' of 7

She lacks photographic memory

Researchers studying the links among emotion, stress, and memory have discovered that:

Excitement tends to increase the chance that an event will be remembered, but stress decreases that chance

Both stress and emotion make events harder to remember

Emotion blocks memory, and it is generally true that we are unable to recall highly emotional events

Both stress and emotion make events more memorable

Which of the following of a flashbulb memory?

Remembering when your father returned from overseas military deployment because it was very emotional

Remembering an especially bright sunrise because you were by the ocean, and it was pretty

Remembering that correlation does not prove causation because your teacher emphasized this over and over

John does better on his stats exams when he sits in the same seat he sits during class, than when he sits in a different seat. If he properly prepared for the test, then _____________ may explain his difference in scores.

Remembering the beginning and end of your grocery list, but not the items in the middle is an example of?

Retrograde amnesia

Long term memory

Serial position effect

Semantic code

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