Quiz 5: Memory, Thinking, and Reasoning

• It is finals season and Daniel is anxious about having to memorize 10 chapters for his Intro to Psychology module. To help him with his exam preparation, his sister Crystal provided him with a couple of tips. Which tip should Daniel not follow during his revision?

  studying only a few days before
• Which of the following is true about short term memory?

  1. The spreading activation model is a theory about how concepts in the short-term memory are recalled.
  2. Short-term memories can be divided into declarative and non-declarative memories.
  3. The recency effect explains why items that are first in a list are better remembered than other items.
  4. Short-term memory is forgotten without rehearsal.
  5. Most of our sensory memory is moved into short-term memory.

  Short-term memory is forgotten without rehearsal.
• For his PL1101E quiz, Andrew studies in the library because it is well lit and air conditioned. He also chooses to take his quiz in the library in order to score better. He is applying the concept of ______

  1. Active Reconstruction
  2. Encoding Specificity
  3. Retrieval
  4. Long-term Potentiation

  encoding specificity
• Imagine you are a teacher in a classroom and you are trying to teach your students about different countries and their capital cities. You have written the names of the countries and their capitals on the whiteboard and are explaining them to the students.

  Which of the following strategies is most likely to result in better memorization of information presented to students?

  recalling you had travelled to the country before