Memory Quiz

What did Miller (1956) say was the capacity of short term memory?

• 1 item at a time

• 9 plus or minus 2

• 4 items

• 7 plus or minus 2

The tendency not to remember information from the first 3 years of our lives is known as:

• Reminiscence bump

• Autobiographical memory

• Infantile amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

Another term for a memory trace is:

• Engram

• Memogram

• Epigram

• Instagram

Which is considered a limitation of the classic multi-store model of Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)? 

• It drew a distinction between short-term and long-term stores

• It stated that long-term memory had essentially unlimited capacity

• It over-emphasised the role of rehearsal in the transfer of information to long-term memory

• All of the above

Which of these tasks measures storage of information only?

• Forwards digit span

• Backwards digit span

• Reading span

• Operation span

Which of these types of amnesia is caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) in the diet?

• Psychogenic amnesia

• Korsakoff syndrome

• Fugue

• Retrograde amnesia

An example of sensory memory in action is:

• Recognising a friend in the street
• Repeating someone's phone number back to yourself
• Seeing your name written in the air with a sparkler
• Remembering the answer to an exam question

What term refers to the better recall of words at the start of a long list, compared to words in the middle?

• Recency effect
• Primacy effect
• Serial position curve
• Independent variable