Remembering and Forgetting
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!
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
Which of the following is most likely to be encoded automatically?
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
Encoding on a basic level, based on the structure or appearance of word.
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort:
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