Memory

Warm up: what day is today

• Thursday

• Friday

• Monday

• Happy day

1. 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?

• 1. Storage

• Recognition

• Relearning

• Recall

How long does iconic memory typically retain visual information?

• 3-4 seconds

• less than 1 second

• 10 seconds

• 20-30 seconds

1. Your memory of which of the following is an example of implicit memory?

• 1. What you had for breakfast yesterday

• 1. The need to spend some time reviewing tomorrow

     for an upcoming psychology quiz

• 1. Which way to turn the car key to start the engine

• 1. That George Washington was the first President

Which of the following is the most accurate description of the capacity of short-term and working memory?

• 1. Lasts for about 2 days in most circumstances

• 1. Lasts for less than half a minute unless you rehearse

     the information

• 1. Is thought to be unlimited—there is always room for

     more information

• 1. Can handle about a half dozen items total

Sarah is taking a psychology exam and she needs to remember the names of the parts of the brain involved in memory formation. Which type of memory is Sarah using to recall these facts?

• Sensory Memory

• Implicit Memory

• Explicit Memory

• Conditioned memory

What two parts of the brain are most involved in explicit memory?

• 1. Frontal lobes and basal ganglia

• 1. Amygdala and hippocampus

• 1. Cerebellum and basal ganglia

• 1. Frontal lobes and hippocampus

3. Which of the following is an example of flashbulb

   memory?

• 1. Barry remembers an especially bright sunrise because he was by the ocean and the sunlight reflected off the water.

• 1. Robert remembers that correlation does not prove a cause–effect relationship because his teacher emphasized this fact over and over again.

• Many people can vividly recall where they were, what they were doing, and how they felt when they first heard about the 9/11 attacks.

• 1. Kris has stronger memories of her second grade teacher than she does of her third grade teacher because her second grade teacher has the same name as her neighbor.

Which of the following is an example of the primacy effect?

• 1. Remembering the names of the first two co-workers you met on the first day of your new job

• 1. Remembering the last thing your English teacher talked about in class yesterday, but nothing from earlier in the class period

• 1. Remembering the skills you learned early in life, such as walking

• 1. Remembering that your clocks must be moved ahead one hour when daylight savings time begins in the spring

Imagine you are in an exam and can’t recall an answer, but it feels like it’s "on the tip of your tongue." Which memory failure are you experiencing?

• 1. Encoding failure

• 1. Retrieval failure

• 1. Sensory memory decay

• 1. Working memory decay