AP Psych Memory Test Review
Your ability to immediately recognize the voice over the phone as your mother's illustrates the value of
Acoustic encoding
After having a stroke, Mike has great difficulty recalling any of his subsequent life experiences. He is most likely suffering from
Amnesia
Which term best describes parallel processing?
Automatic
We can encode many sensory experiences simultaneously, some automatically, because of which property of the brain?
Automatic processing
The use of acronyms to improve one's memory of unfamiliar material best illustrates the value of
Chunking
Information learned while a person is ________ is best recalled when that person is __________.
Drunk; drunk
Recorded information played during sleep is registered by the ears but not remembered. The illustrates that the retention of information requires
Effortful Processing
The effortful processing of information
Effortful processing
The process of getting information into memory is called
Encoding
Most Americans still have accurate flashbulb memories of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The best illustrates that memory formation is facilitated by
The bodies release of stress hormones
mood-congruent memory refers to the effect of emotional states on the process of
retrieval
Memory is best defined as
the persistence of learning through the storage and retrieval of information
The fact that our preconceived ideas contribute to our ability to process new information best illustrates the importance of
Semantic encoding
Some information in our fleeting __________ is encoded into short-term memory
Sensory Memory
The human capacity for storing long-term memories is
unlimited
You are most likely to automatically encode information about
yourself; relevant to yourself
Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the
hippocampus
Which of the following best describes explicit memories?
Include memory for general knowledge
The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve
Interference
Every day as she walks to school, Mary passes a mural painted on the side of a building. However, when asked, she says she does not remember ever seeing it. Which of the following is the best explanation for this occurrence?
It hasn't been encoded into her long term memory
A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ________ memory
Long term
Ebbinghaus' retention curve best illustrates the value of
Rehearsal
The serial position effect best illustrates the importance of
Rehearsal
The process of getting information out of memory is called
Retrieval
Using the mnemonics ROY G. BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow in the order of wavelength illustrates the use of
The peg word system
To gain accurate eyewitness testimony from children, interviewers must
Use neutral words that children can understand
In recalling what he calls the seven sins of memory, Daniel Schacter suggests that encoding failure results from the sin of
absent-mindedness
Short-term memory is slightly better
for auditory information than visual information
A mnemonic device is a
memory aid
"The magical number seven, plus or minus two" refers to the storage capacity of ___________ memory
short
When we fall in love, we tend to overestimate how much we liked our partner when we first began dating. This best illustrates the dynamic of
Memory Construction
Compared with formerly depressed people, those who are currently depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive. This best illustrates
Mood-congruent memory
Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their memory failure best illustrates
Motivated forgetting
Your relative success in recalling various items one day after you first heard them listed in order is likely to illustrate
Primacy Effect
Students who restudy course material in order to pass a comprehensive examination are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates the value of
The Spacing Effect
Iconic memory refers to
a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli
Priming is to retrieval as rehearsal is to
encoding
To prevent encoding failure you should
engage in effortful processing
The self-reference effect best illustrates the value of
semantic encoding
Long-term potentiation refers to
the increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons following learning
Visually associating five items needed from the grocery store with mental images of a bun, a shoe, a tree, a door, and a hive best illustrates the use of
the peg-word system