Psychology 10:  Introduction to Psychology

Instructor:  Halford H. Fairchild

Quiz for October 3, 2006:  The Psychology of Memory

 

Your Name:____________________________

 
  1. According to mathematician John Griffith, in an average lifetime, a person stores (in memory) roughly ________ times as much information as can be found in all the volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 
    1. 50
    2. 100
    3. 250
    4. 500
    5. 1000
  2. The first question in this quiz required a form of ______ that is known as ________.
    1. Encoding; recall
    2. Encoding; recognition
    3. Retrieval; recall
    4. Retrieval; recognition
    5. Storage; recall
    6. Storage; recognition
  3. The type of memory where you remember how to do something, like riding a bike, folding a map, or playing golf, is known as
    1. Episodic memory
    2. Semantic memory
    3. Explicit memory
    4. Procedural memory
    5. Implicit memory
  4. The information processing model of memory suggests three stages of mental processing.  Which stage holds information for the shortest amount of time?

Write your answer here:

 

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  1. George Miller (1956) spoke of the “magic number” regarding the capacity of short term memory.  This “magic number” was
    1. 3
    2. 5
    3. 9
    4. 12
    5. 7 plus or minus 2
  2. Unrehearsed information can be held in short term memory for no more than about _____.
    1. 1 second or less
    2. 18 seconds
    3. 30 seconds
    4. 1 minute
    5. 2 minutes
  3. The fact that we can re-learn something that we thought we forgot (like, how to ice skate, or algebra), in less time than we originally learned it, was named by Hermann Ebbinghaus, who called it the
    1. Fate of stored information
    2. Learning curve
    3. Re-learning curve
    4. Method of savings
    5. Curve of forgetting
  4. When old information interferes with learning or remembering new information, we would call that:
    1. Decay
    2. Displacement
    3. Retroactive interference
    4. Proactive interference
    5. Forgetting
  5. To use the acronym HOMES to remember the names of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior), is an example of _________.
    1. Method of loci
    2. Cramming
    3. Distributed practice
    4. PQ4R method
    5. None of the above (specify): ____________________.
  6. The PQ4R method is ______, question, read, reflect, recite and review.  What is the missing word?

 

Answer:  _____________________.