AP Psych Unit 7

Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the (area of the brain) _______________

hippocampus

When we fall in love, we tend to overestimate how much we liked our partner when we first began dating. This best illustrates the dynamics of ________________

memory construction

Rephrasing text material in your own words is an effective way of facilitating _____________

semantic encoding

The self-reference effect best illustrates the value of _______________

semantic encoding

The prolonged stress of sustained physical abuse may inhibit memory formation by shrinking the (area of the brain) ___________________

hippocampus

Explicit memory is to the _____________ as implicit memory is to the ______________.

hippocampus, cerebellum

The accuracy of the flashbulb memories of those who witnessed the 2010 earthquake in Haiti best illustrates that memory formation is facilitated __________________

by the release of stress hormones

The letters Y, M, O, M, R, E are presented. Jill remembers them by rearranging them to spell the word "MEMORY." This provides an illustration of ______________

chunking

Shortly after you see a missing-child poster you are more likely to interpret an ambiguous adult-child interaction as a possible kidnapping. This best illustrates the impact of ________________

priming

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which test of memory is being used?

recall

Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves ________________.

repression

When Jake applied for a driver's license, he was embarrassed by a momentary inability to remember his address. Jake's memory difficulty most likely resulted from a(n) ________________

retrieval failure

Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fall asleep is most likely due to ________________

encoding failure

Harry Bahrick observed that three years after people completed a Spanish course, they had forgotten much of the vocabulary they had learned. This finding indicates that information is lost while it is _______________

in storage

When Bryan's girlfriend broke up with him, he felt very down. As he sat in his bedroom, he thought about all of the other times his heart had been broken. Bryan's experience provides an example of _______________

mood-congruency

The integration of new incoming information with knowledge retrieved from long-term memory involves the activity of____________

working memory

___________is best defined as the persistence of learning through the storage and retrieval of information.

Memory

When children are interviewed about their recollections of possible sexual abuse, their reports are especially credible if _______________

asked neutrally and without interaction with adults involved in the memory.

Walking into your bedroom you think, "I need to get my backpack in the kitchen." When you reach the kitchen, you forget what you came there for. As you return to your bedroom, you suddenly remember, "Backpack!" This sudden recall is best explained by ________________

context effects

We can encode many sensory experiences simultaneously, some automatically, because of this property of the brain____________

parallel processing

Repression most clearly involves a failure in _______________

retrieval

Your friend told you that eating chocolate was shown to improve memory recall. You may later recall this "fact" but forget where you heard it. You assume that you heard it on the news, a credible source, so you begin eating chocolate. Your behavior best illustrates ________________

source amnesia

Students who restudy course material at the end of a semester in order to pass the AP final exam are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates the value of the _____________

spacing effect

Research suggests that a memory trace is most likely to involve ________________

synaptic changes