Long or Short Term
Memory Strength
Attention Span
SBU 102
General Trivia (Hard)
Because question quota
100

This is a type of memory

What are both?

100

What mental factor has a huge influence on the strength of memories?

What is emotion?

100

What is the average attention span of an adult human?

What is 8.25 seconds?

100

What was the first topic in our presentation?

What is visual memory?

100

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200

This type of memory is commonly confused with working memory

What is short term?

200

What makes an image more memorable?

What are...

a) images with people

b) brighter pictures

c) atypical pictures

200

What household pet now has a higher attention span than the average adult human?

What is a goldfish?

200

This was the topic of the third project presented

What is video games and cocaine

200

This is the only english word ending in "mt"

What is dreamt?

300

This type of memory is fragile

What is long term?

300

These two variables are related on the Yerkes-Dodson Curve

What are Pressure and Performance?

300

How many times a week does the average phone user pick up their phone?

What is 1,500 times?

300

This was the topic of the second project presented

What is mental potential?

300

What percentage of the world population suffers from any form of amnesia?

What is 1% - 2.6%?

400

This is the maximum number of items your short term memory can handle

What is 5 - 9?

400

Length of an experience has little effect on the memory of that event is the definition of what term?

What is duration neglect?

400

Around how long does a student lose their attention during a lecture?

What is 10 to 15 minutes?

400

This was the topic of the first project presented

What is aviation

400

What is the furthest you can be from a McDonald's in America

What is 107 miles?

500

True or False: Implicit memory is used for the "implicit" events that have happened throughout your life

False

500

What were two of the four most memorable images?

What are... and...

a) a doctor performing surgery

b) a head poking through a ball pit

c) a bunch of barrels

d) a runner on a track

500

What is one particular way to increase your attention span?

What is concentrating on the information?

500

This memorization technique involves imagining a chosen arrangment and was taught to us in one of the first weeks of this class

What is a mental model?

500

This is the longest word with no vowels

What is rhythm?