Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
English for Education and Psychology
Short-term memory test
Select you gender: - Female - Male
Age:
You have two minutes to memorize as much words as you can.
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You have one minute and thirty seconds to write down the words you recall.
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Which technique did you use to memorize these words?
a. Clustering (organizing information in memory into related groups)
b. Name Mnemonic (Memorizing the first letter of each word)
c. Repetition (repeating the word again and again).
You have two minutes to memorize as much as you can.
You have one minute and thirty seconds to write down the images you remember.
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Which technique did you use to remember these images?
a. Chunking (process by which information is bound together into a meaningful whole)
b. Repetition (repeating the word again and again).
c. Name Mnemonic (Memorizing the first letter of each word)