People use strategies that give meaning and organisation to the material so that it can be fitted in with existing organised long-term memories, through . . . . . . . .
A. Elaborative rehearsal
B. Maintenance rehearsal
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
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In the Atkinson-shiffrin theory, memory starts with a sensory input from the:
A. Brain
B. Spinal cord
C. Environment
D. None of the above
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Which of the following types of long-term memory deals with individual's personal experiences?
A. Semantic memory
B. Episodic memory
C. Procedural memory
D. None of the above
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Riding a bicycle, typing, writing are simple examples of:
A. Semantic Memory
B. Procedural Memory
C. Episodic Memory
D. Symbolic comparison
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Which of the following memory is more widely known as iconic memory?
A. Auditory sensory memory
B. Visual sensory memory
C. Short-term memory
D. Long-term memory
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The first level of incoming information for memory is:
A. Environment
B. Perception
C. Meaning
D. None of the above
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Which of the following is an important characteristics of episodic memory?
A. Holds all kind of knowledge
B. The emotional nature of events
C. Used to acquire different kinds of skills
D. None of the above
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. . . . . . . refers to any discrete unit of information.
A. Chunk
B. Data
C. Encoding
D. None of the above
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Amnesia' is a classified into two parts. First is Psychological amnesia and second is . . . . . . . .
A. Biological amnesia
B. Physiological amnesia
C. Defensive amnesia
D. All of the above
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The ToT phenomenon indicates
A. Tip of the tongue phenomenon
B. Tip of the toe phenomenon
C. Tip of the tail phenomenon
D. None of the above
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A type of amnesia which is usually considered to be a way of protecting oneself from the guilt of anxiety that can result from intense, intolerable life situations and conflicts, is . . . . . . . .
A. Dream Amnesia
B. Childhood Amnesia
C. Defensive Amesia
D. Only A and B
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We forget because learning new things interferes with our memory of what we learned earlier, is example of . . . . . . . .
A. Retrieval
B. Decay
C. Interference
D. Motivation
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What we remember of a text is not a copy of the to-be-remembered material but the material is elaborated, simplified and changed in many ways at the time of input-these are called :
A. Reconstructive process
B. Constructive process
C. Destructive process
D. None of the above
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Visual sensory register holds information for upto about . . . . . . . .
A. 4 seconds
B. 3 seconds
C. 2 seconds
D. 1 second
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Memories which can last for days, months, years or even a life time are stored in . . . . . . . .
A. Short-term memory
B. Long-term memory
C. Semantic memory
D. Episodic memory
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Forgetting caused by the prior learning of other material is called . . . . . . . .
A. Interference
B. Retroactive interference
C. Proactive interference
D. All of the above
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Who has shown that proactive inhibition plays an important role when experienced subjects are used in an experiment?
A. William James
B. Underwood
C. Sigmund Freud
D. None of the above
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STM can hold
A. 7 units of information
B. 7 units of information plus or minus two
C. 7 units of information plus two
D. 5 units of information plus or minus two
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Which of the following is a symptom of senile dementia, a disease of brain?
A. Personality changes
B. Delusions
C. General disorientation
D. All of the above
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The models of memory that describe parallel processing of information by numerous neural modules in the brain are called:
A. Parallel Network Models
B. Memory Network Models
C. Neural Network Models
D. Tha Atkinson and Shiffrin Model
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