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Memory

Quiz by Paul Henderson

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11 questions
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  • Q1
    What is memory?
    The capacity to remember information
    The capacity to preserve and recover information
    The capacity to filter information
    30s
  • Q2
    What is stored in long-term memory?
    Episodic Memories
    Episodic Memories Semantic Memory Procedural Memory
    Episodic Memories Procedural Memory
    120s
  • Q3
    Memory Involves...
    .Encoding: Putting things into memory .Storage: Maintaining information in memory over time .Retrieval: Recovering information from memory
    Writing things down to remember
    .Storage: Maintaining information in memory over time .Retrieval: Recovering information from memory
    120s
  • Q4
    How do we best store new information?
    Organization Meaning Visualization
    Write it down
    repetition
    Record it
    120s
  • Q5
    Organization
    chunking (magical number 7 +/- 2) hierarchies (broad concepts first, details next) semantic networks
    having people remind us
    writing things down
    Giving up
    120s
  • Q6
    How does meaning help memory?
    Memory is only what you've leaned
    It doesn't
    .We encode and remember only specific aspects of stimuli
    120s
  • Q7
    Remembering through visualization
    Visual imagery - the process used to construct an internal image
    This is only good for athletes
    Visual imagery - the process used to construct an external image
    120s
  • Q8
    Where are memories stored
    Frontal lobe
    Amygdala
    hippocampus - formation and storage (consolidation) of new memories
    120s
  • Q9
    Amnesia
    A virus
    Something that happens in the movies
    unable to recall information (episodic) learned prior to incident leading to amnesia
    120s
  • Q10
    Why Do We Forget
    Brain damage
    .retrieval failure .decay
    Never learned it
    120s
  • Q11
    Reconstructive Remembering
    You can't reconstruct a memory
    remembering can be affected by our previous beliefs and expectations and by new information added after the effect to be remembered
    Visualization is reconstructing
    120s

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