COOP Memory 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A student reads a list: pen, book, desk, lamp, chair, clock, door. Which item is MOST likely to be recalled first due to the serial position effect?
- book
- pen (Correct answer)
- chair
- clock
Correct answer: pen
The primacy effect causes the first item in a list to be recalled most easily because it received the most rehearsal.
Question 2: Maria memorized her locker combination by turning it into a phone number she already knew. This strategy is called:
- chunking
- elaborative encoding
- mnemonics (Correct answer)
- shadowing
Correct answer: mnemonics
Mnemonics are memory tricks that connect new information to something already familiar.
Question 3: Which type of memory allows you to remember how to ride a bicycle without consciously thinking about each step?
- episodic memory
- semantic memory
- procedural memory (Correct answer)
- working memory
Correct answer: procedural memory
Procedural memory stores learned motor skills and habits that are performed automatically.
Question 4: You study Spanish on Monday, then French on Tuesday. On a Spanish test Wednesday, you struggle because French interfered. This is called:
- proactive interference
- retroactive interference (Correct answer)
- decay
- repression
Correct answer: retroactive interference
Retroactive interference occurs when newer learning disrupts recall of older information.
Question 5: A child can repeat back 5 digits immediately after hearing them but forgets them within 30 seconds without rehearsal. This reflects the limits of:
- long-term memory
- sensory memory
- working memory (Correct answer)
- implicit memory
Correct answer: working memory
Working memory (short-term memory) holds about 7 items and fades quickly without active rehearsal.
Question 6: Which of the following BEST describes the 'tip-of-the-tongue' phenomenon?
- Forgetting a word completely after not using it
- Knowing information exists but being temporarily unable to retrieve it (Correct answer)
- Confusing two similar words
- Learning a new word incorrectly
Correct answer: Knowing information exists but being temporarily unable to retrieve it
The tip-of-the-tongue state is a retrieval failure where the memory exists but cannot be accessed at that moment.
Question 7: Spreading review sessions of the same material over several days rather than reviewing all at once is called:
- massed practice
- spaced practice (Correct answer)
- elaborative rehearsal
- incidental learning
Correct answer: spaced practice
Spaced practice (distributed practice) improves long-term retention compared to cramming.
COOP Memory 2
A student reads a list: pen, book, desk, lamp, chair, clock, door.
Which item is MOST likely to be recalled first due to the serial position effect?