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6. What does it mean to be measured as percent savings?

  • Comparison of rate of forgetting
  • Comparison of two different participants' scores
  • Comparison of immediate testing vs testing after a delay
  • Comparison of recall of nonsense or real syllables

7. What is Tulving's encoding specificity?

  • Retrieval is determined by the similarity between the information not available in memory and the information available at retrieval
  • Retrieval is determined by the similarity between the information available in memory and information available at retrieval
  • Retrieval is determined by the difference between the information available in memory and information available at retrieval
  • Retrieval is determined by the difference between the information available in memory and the information not available at retrieval

8. In Brown-Peterson (1958), what was the percentage of correct recall for the 0-second delay?

  • 87%
  • 90%
  • 70%
  • 98%

9. What does the Ebbinghaus curve demonstrate?

  • Information is rapidly forgotten at first then forgetting stops abruptly
  • Information is slowly forgotten at first then forgetting stops abruptly
  • Information is rapidly forgotten at first then forgetting starts to slow down
  • Information is slowly forgotten at first then forgetting speeds up

10. In Brown-Peterson (1958), what was the percentage of correct recall for the 18-second delay?

  • 7%
  • 3%
  • 11%
  • 18%

11. Which is not true of forgetting?

  • It is a failure to encode
  • It could be recalled at an earlier occasion
  • The memory could be remembered in the future
  • Need to be able to forget sometimes

12. In the inaccessibility account of forgetting, it is difficult to dissociate _____ memories and _______ memories

  • Available, inaccessible
  • Available, accessible
  • Unavailable, inaccessible
  • Unavailable, accessible

13. What is retroactive interference?

  • Old information interferes with retention of old information
  • New information interferes with retention of old information
  • New information interferes with learning new information
  • Old information interferes with learning new information

14. What is proactive interference?

  • New information interferes with learning new information
  • Old information interferes with learning new information
  • New information interferes with retention of old information
  • Old information interferes with retention of old information

15. In Wickers et al, when was there more proactive interference?

  • When words were presented after a delay
  • When words were all from the same category
  • When words were presented at the same time
  • When words were from different categories

16. In Waugh and Norman's (1965) study, with a slow rate decay should have more of an effect but...

  • Performance was the same with each rate
  • Performance was better with the slow rate
  • Performance was better with the fast rate

17. In Cowan et al, 4 out of 6 patients had better memory following _________ interval

  • The extra
  • The filled
  • The unfilled
  • No

18. In the absense of _____ we have an issue of inaccessibility

  • A cue
  • Forgetting
  • A memory
  • Encoding

19. What is the word length effect?

  • Less time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so longer words should be forgott
  • More time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so longer words should be forgotten more
  • More time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so shorter words should be forgotten more
  • Less time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so longer words should be forgotten more

20. In Meeter et al, what style of questions was performance better for?

  • Spoken
  • MCQ's
  • Free recall
  • Essay