| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Holds a vast amount of information for a very long period of time. | Long-Term Store | 86%
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| Holds approximately seven chunks of information for a limited amount of time. | Short-Term Store | 83%
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| Recovering information from storage. | Retrieval | 71%
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| Holds information received from the senses for a very short period of time. | Sensory Store | 65%
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| Changing information so that it can be stored. | Encoding | 58%
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| Holding information in the memory system. | Storage | 51%
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| The idea that information passes through a series of memory stores. | Multi Store Theory | 43%
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| Thinking about the meaning of words to be learnt. | Semantic Processing | 41%
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| Information received later is recalled better than earlier information. | Recency Effect | 37%
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| The first information received is recalled better than subsequent information. | Primacy Effect | 34%
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| A question that hints that a particular type of answer is required. | Leading Question | 28%
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| Loss of memory for events that happened before brain damage occured. | Retrograde Amnesia | 21%
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| Things that we have learnt that make it difficult to recall other information that we have learnt. | Interference | 18%
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| When information we have recently learnt hinders our ability to recall information we have previously learnt. | Proactive Interference | 18%
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| When information we already learnt hinders our ability to recall new information. | Retroactive Interference | 17%
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| Being unable to learn new information after suffering brain damage. | Anterograde Amnesia | 16%
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| The general setting or environment in which activities happen. | Context | 12%
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| A method of questioning witnesses that involves recreating the context of an event. | Cognitive Interview | 11%
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| Thinking about the sound of words to be learnt. | Phonetic Processing | 8%
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| Altering our recollection of things so that they make more sense to us. | Reconstructive Memory | 8%
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| In the context of eyewitness testimony, the extent to which it can be regarded as accurate. | Reliability | 5%
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| Thinking about the physical appearance of words to be learnt. | Structural Processing | 4%
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| The depth at which information is thought about when trying to learn it. | Levels of Processing | 2%
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