4.5 Memory and Recall Quiz

What is it called when you identify previously learned information with the help of cues?

• Recall

• Recognition

• Relearning

• Retrieval failure

Which type of memory test requires retrieving information without any prompts?

• Recall

• Recognition

• Relearning

• Amnesia

What term describes learning information a second time and doing it more quickly?

• Retrieval failure

• Relearning

• Recognition

• Proactive interference

Why might a student forget test material because they studied in a different room than where the test is taken?

• State-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

• Retrieval failure

• Context-dependent cues

What type of amnesia involves the inability to form new memories after a brain injury?

• Retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Retrieval failure

• Proactive interference

When you’re in a happy mood and start remembering other joyful events, which memory principle is at work?

• State-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

• Recognition

• Proactive interference

What is the most likely reason for forgetting when you feel like the information is “on the tip of your tongue”?

• Retrieval failure

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Recognition

A person forgets events from their life before a head injury but can still form new memories. What type of amnesia is this?

• Retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Retrieval failure

• Context-dependent cues

What term refers to when new information makes it harder to recall old information?

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Retrieval failure

• Recognition

Why might someone keep typing an old password instead of remembering their new one?

• Retroactive interference

• Retrieval failure

• Proactive interference

• Context-dependent cues