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