AP Psychology Unit 7 Test Questions: Memory

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

Working memory

Explicit memory is to __________ as implicit memory is to __________

hippocampus; basal ganglia and cerebellum

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

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

Mood-congruent memory

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

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

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

Encoding failure

Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the

Hippocampus

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

Involved adults have not discussed the issue with them prior to the interview

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

Repression most clearly involves a failure in

Retrieval

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

Retrieval failure

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

Retrieval failure

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

the body's release of stress hormones

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

Parallel processing

__________ is best defined as learning that has persisted over time, through the storage and retrieval of information.

Memory

The self-reference effect best illustrates the value of

Semantic encoding

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

Semantic encoding of meaning

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 being eating chocolate. Your behavior best illustrates

Source Amnesia

Research suggests that a memory trace is most likely to involve

Synaptic change

The prolonged stress of sustained physical abuse may inhibit memory formation by shrinking the

hippocampus

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