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Memory Techniques Worksheet: How Memory Works

Memory techniques lesson 1: How memory works · Set 151 · 40 questions
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Memory tip (Notice, store, recall): Three steps, in order: notice it → store it → recall it. If you never noticed it, it was never stored. Facts: practice improves memory, we forget without review, sleep helps you learn, pictures stick better, testing yourself helps. Myths: “some kids never forget”, “memory can’t improve”, “one reading is enough”, “pills give super memory”.

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  1. 1.🧠 Can every child learn a “photographic memory” that keeps whole pages? (a) yes, with a pill (b) no, that is a myth (c) yes, by staring hard (d) yes, in a week
  2. 2.🧠 Fact or myth: “sleep helps you learn”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
  3. 3.True or false: “meaning makes it stick” is a myth about memory. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sleep helps you learn (b) meaning makes it stick (c) practice improves memory (d) some kids never forget
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) memory can’t improve (b) some kids never forget (c) good memory is just luck (d) testing yourself helps
  6. 6.True or false: “pills give super memory” is a fact about memory. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: pay attention or store it? (a) pay attention (b) store it
  8. 8.🧠 Which step of memory is this: keep it in memory? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 2
  9. 9.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: store it or notice it? (a) store it (b) notice it
  10. 10.🧠 Which step of memory is this: get it back later? (a) step 3 (b) step 1 (c) step 2
  11. 11.True or false: “memory can’t improve” is a myth about memory. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🧠 Which step of memory is this: recall it? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1
  13. 13.🧠 Fact or myth: “some kids never forget”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
  14. 14.🧠 Which is easiest to keep in memory? (a) a number read once (b) something you understand (c) random letters (d) a word you never heard
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) we forget without review (b) meaning makes it stick (c) sleep helps you learn (d) memory can’t improve
  16. 16.🧠 Which step of memory is this: notice it? (a) step 3 (b) step 2 (c) step 1
  17. 17.🧠 You forgot a new friend’s name one minute after hearing it. What most likely went wrong? (a) you are bad at names (b) not paying attention (c) your brain is full (d) names can’t be learned
  18. 18.True or false: “cramming lasts for years” is a myth about memory. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🧠 Fact or myth: “one reading is enough”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
  20. 20.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) some kids never forget (b) we forget without review (c) cramming lasts for years (d) one reading is enough
  21. 21.True or false: “we forget without review” is a myth about memory. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a myth about memory? (a) everyone forgets things (b) we forget without review (c) memory can’t improve (d) sleep helps you learn
  23. 23.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: keep it in memory or notice it? (a) keep it in memory (b) notice it
  24. 24.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: notice it or get it back later? (a) notice it (b) get it back later
  25. 25.🧠 Which step of memory is this: store it? (a) step 2 (b) step 3 (c) step 1
  26. 26.True or false: “attention comes first” is a fact about memory. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cramming lasts for years (b) practice improves memory (c) one reading is enough (d) you keep all you read
  28. 28.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: keep it in memory or pay attention? (a) keep it in memory (b) pay attention
  29. 29.🧠 Fact or myth: “memory can’t improve”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
  30. 30.🧠 Fact or myth: “pictures stick better”? (a) a myth (b) a fact
  31. 31.🧠 Fact or myth: “attention comes first”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
  32. 32.True or false: “attention comes first” is a myth about memory. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🧠 Fact or myth: “pills give super memory”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
  34. 34.Which of these is a myth about memory? (a) one reading is enough (b) practice improves memory (c) attention comes first (d) we forget without review
  35. 35.🧠 Fact or myth: “we forget without review”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
  36. 36.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: keep it in memory or recall it? (a) keep it in memory (b) recall it
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) memory can’t improve (b) pills give super memory (c) some kids never forget (d) meaning makes it stick
  38. 38.Which of these is a fact about memory? (a) pictures stick better (b) good memory is just luck (c) cramming lasts for years (d) memory can’t improve
  39. 39.🧠 Fact or myth: “testing yourself helps”? (a) a fact (b) a myth
  40. 40.🧠 In the three steps of memory, which comes first: recall it or store it? (a) recall it (b) store it

Answer key

  1. no, that is a myth
  2. a fact
  3. False
  4. some kids never forget
  5. testing yourself helps
  6. False
  7. pay attention
  8. step 2
  9. notice it
  10. step 3
  11. True
  12. step 3
  13. a myth
  14. something you understand
  15. memory can’t improve
  16. step 1
  17. not paying attention
  18. True
  19. a myth
  20. we forget without review
  21. False
  22. memory can’t improve
  23. notice it
  24. notice it
  25. step 2
  26. True
  27. practice improves memory
  28. pay attention
  29. a myth
  30. a fact
  31. a fact
  32. False
  33. a myth
  34. one reading is enough
  35. a fact
  36. keep it in memory
  37. meaning makes it stick
  38. pictures stick better
  39. a fact
  40. store it

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