AP Psych Unit 7-8 Quiz Qs

The components of creativity include

expertise and a venturesome personality

A sudden realization of the solution to a problem is called

insight

The sudden comprehension of the double meaning of a humorous pun best illustrates

insight

The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ________ effect.

serial position

Jamille performs better on foreign language vocabulary tests if she studies the material 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test. This illustrates what is known as

the spacing effect

Group 1 is asked to write down the names of the seven dwarfs. Group 2 is asked to look at a list of possible names of the dwarfs and circle the correct seven. Why might Group 2 be more likely to recall more names?

Group 2's list provides more retrieval cues, making this recognition task easier for them.

Anika resisted changing her answer to a test question after reminding herself that "it's always best to stick with your first answer." Anika's decision best illustrates the use of

a heuristic

Which term refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?

cognition

Effortful processing can only occur with

conscious attention

The eerie sense of having previously experienced a situation is known as

deja vu

Déjà vu refers to the

eerie sense of having previously experienced a situation or event.

A best example of a category of objects, events, or people is called a(n)

prototype

Mood-congruent memory refers to the effect of emotional states on the process of

retrieval

Repression most clearly involves a failure in

retrieval

After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of

retroactive interference

"The magical number seven, plus or minus two" refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory.

short-term

As a child, Andre dreamed that he was chased and attacked by a ferocious dog. Many years later, he mistakenly recalled that this had actually happened to him. Andre's false recollection best illustrates

source amnesia

Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the

hippocampus

Our immediate short-term memory for new material is limited to roughly ________ bits of information.

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Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention is known as

automatic processing

Intrinsic motivation is thought to be an important component of

creativity

Conscious memory of factual information is called ________ memory.

explicit

Simple thinking strategies that allow us to solve problems and make judgments efficiently are called

heuristics

The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as

long-term potentiation

The process of getting information out of memory is called

retrieval

Research participants were asked to identify a word that could be associated meaningfully with each of three other words. Solutions that occurred with sudden insight were accompanied by a burst of activity in the brain's ________ lobe.

right temporal

Many people overestimate how long they actually remain awake during restless nights because their moments of wakefulness are easier to recall than their moments of sleep. This best illustrates the impact of

the availability heuristic

Because Ken is 6' 6", people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his high school basketball team. This mistaken judgment best illustrates the impact of

the representative heuristic

Miss Jan De Jong is orderly, neat, fairly quiet, and shy. She enjoys reading in her spare time and belongs to a social club that includes three librarians, nine real estate agents, and eight social workers. A tendency to conclude that Jan must be one of the three librarians would illustrate the powerful influence of

the representative heuristic

The tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than massed study is known as

the spacing effect