Consulting your Memory - quick quiz with answers
September 6th 2009 01:34
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Questions and answers
1. When you remember a face, what parts of the face do you pay the most attention to?
(upper face with the hair, eyes and nose.)
2. Although much of your brain is working all of the time, certain areas are especially more active when you perform a specific memory task. What part of the brain works hardest when you think of long-term memories?
(Back of the head and near the left ear.)
3. How can I keep my memory and mental capacities intact?
(Stay healthy, eat a good diet, and exercise the body and brain.)
4. What is a "flashbulb" memory?
(Your memory preserves a random moment in time: Many adults can tell you where they were when they heard President Kennedy had been assassinated.)
5. What are the two kinds of memory?
(Recall and recognition)
6. How many letters or numbers in a sequence can most people remember?
(Five to nine, but seven is the average.)
7. What kinds of memories are more likely to find their way into your long-term memory?
(Those memories that have meaning for us, that stir our emotions or connect to what we already know and care about.)
8. Author Toni Morrison wrote: "You know they straightened out the Mississippi River in places to make room for houses and usable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding, it is ______." (Remembering)
9. If you try to remember what you did last Tuesday, what are you likely to rely on? (Generally you rely on remembering your everyday routines.)
10. What type of birds has the longest known migration, relying on their memory and navigation? (shore birds)
11. How many pins are in the Pin Wall? (And would you believe that our exhibit designers had to put each pin in one at a time! 30,420)
12. Do you remember your dinosaurs? A model of what dino is hanging from the Discovery Center ceiling? (T-Rex)
13. What is the name of the little boy in the artwork in the Museum Store window? (Don Manuel)
14. The Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula is how high? (9.5 light years or about 57 trillion miles.)
15. How many astronauts' names are on the Hubble Shuttle Mission 125? (seven)
16. Which astronaut is from Pekin? (Scott Altman)
17. What percentage of all animal species of the Earth are insects? (95 percent)
18. Do you remember the three types of rock? They are sedimentary, igneous and _______. (metamorphic)
19. Can you figure out what piece of American currency is stuck on the memory jug in the Folk Art Gallery? (penny)
20. Who's the president whose picture is hanging in the Folk Art Gallery? (Franklin Roosevelt)
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