Cognitive Processes and Memory Functions Quiz

Challenge yourself with questions on cognitive processes, memory functions, and key concepts in memory psychology. How much do you know?

#1

Which memory process involves retaining information over time?

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Forgetting
#2

What is the term for the process of converting sensory information into a form that can be stored in memory?

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Recall
#3

What is the term for the process of forming new memories?

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Recall
#4

Which of the following is not a stage of memory processing according to the Information Processing Model?

Sensory Memory
Short-term Memory
Intermediate Memory
Long-term Memory
#5

Which term describes the process of retrieving specific information from memory?

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Recall
#6

Who proposed the multi-store model of memory?

Alan Baddeley
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Endel Tulving
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#7

What is the term for the process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored?

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Recall
#8

Who proposed the concept of working memory?

Alan Baddeley
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Endel Tulving
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#9

Which type of memory is typically associated with skills and habits?

Episodic memory
Semantic memory
Procedural memory
Flashbulb memory
#10

What term describes the tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list more effectively than items in the middle or at the end?

Primacy effect
Recency effect
Serial position effect
Chunking
#11

Which type of memory is associated with personally experienced events?

Semantic memory
Procedural memory
Episodic memory
Implicit memory
#12

Which memory system is responsible for holding large amounts of information for a brief period?

Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
Working memory
#13

Which neurotransmitter is crucially involved in the process of memory formation?

Dopamine
Serotonin
Acetylcholine
GABA
#14

What phenomenon refers to the enhanced recall of information when the context present during encoding matches the context during retrieval?

State-dependent memory
Context-dependent memory
Flashbulb memory
Source amnesia
#15

Which part of the brain is most closely associated with the formation of explicit memories?

Amygdala
Hippocampus
Prefrontal cortex
Cerebellum
#16

What term describes the phenomenon where recalling an item from long-term memory becomes easier after it has been retrieved once?

Recency effect
Primacy effect
Relearning
Spaced repetition
#17

Which type of memory involves unconscious recollection of past experiences and skills?

Episodic memory
Semantic memory
Procedural memory
Declarative memory

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