Sana takes part in a university memory study. A psychologist gives her a standardised set of memory tasks: remembering word lists, retelling short stories, remembering designs and remembering faces. Her scores on all four tasks are unusually low compared with typical scores for people her age.
State the memory function measured by the word-list and short-story tasks.
State the memory function measured by the design and face tasks.
Give one reason why Sana's scores alone do not show that she has neurological damage.
27 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 5.3 Application: Techniques used for recall, covering 5.3.1 Cues, repetition and advertising and 5.3.2 Neuropsychology for measuring memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.