AP Psych Memory Quiz

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Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates the role of context effects in memory?

Amy

Tim can no longer create new memories as a result of an accident. Tim is experiencing which of the following types of amnesia?

Anterograde

After having a stroke resulting from a blockage of blood to the medial temporal lobe, Gerald could not remember new information, such as the books he had just read, new songs he had just heard, or the faces of new people he had just met. Gerald was experiencing...

Anterograde Amnesia

John suffered a head injury in an accident five years ago. He now has clear memories of events that occurred before the accident, but he has great difficulty remembering any of the experiences he has had since the accident. John's symptoms describe which of the following?

Anterograde amnesia

If Juan tried to learn a long list of words, he would be most likely to forget words that...

Appeared in the middle of the list

Devi spent time developing a set of note cards for an upcoming test that used word associations based on what the words meant in relation to each other. Which of the following did Devi use with this study method?

Effortful processing

Which of the following is an example of the tip-of-the-tongue effect?

Emma

Barclay is excited about all they will learn in AP Psychology when school starts next week. According to the multi-store model of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves which of the following?

Encoding

During English class, Caleb is worried about an unfinished history project he needs to turn in later in the day. While the English teacher and other students discuss a short story the class just read, Caleb's attention is focused on how to finish the history project. The next day he is unable to recall the short story details presented in English class. The recall problem is most likely due to

Encoding failure

Which of the following best illustrates the forgetting curve?

Erik studying Italian in college.

After Doug witnessed two cars involved in a car accident, a police officer asked Doug how fast the cars were going when the accident happened. According to research by Elizabeth Loftus, which of the following questions could the officer ask that would make Doug most susceptible to the misinformation effect?

How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other ?

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates context-dependent memory?

Jeannette does better on her exam when she takes it in the same room where she studies.

When studying for a vocabulary test, Catherine read one of her vocabulary words and its definition aloud several times. About twenty seconds later, she still remembered the word's meaning, but then she moved on to the next word in the list without engaging in any further strategies to enhance her memory. The next day, she tested herself on the same vocabulary word at the same time, in the same mood, and in the same location as when she had first studied the word, but she could not remember its definition. It is most likely that Catherine could not remember the word because she failed to engage which of the following memory functions?

Long term memory

Short term memory is best described in which of the following ways?

Memory that can hold only a small amount of information

Throughout January and the beginning of February, the first two months of a calendar year, Allison writes the previous year as the date on all her assignments instead of the current year. Allison's tendency to write the wrong year on her assignments is most likely due to which of the following?

Proactive interference

Matthew learned to play the violin at a very early age. He is able to play several songs from memory, but he does not remember learning to play them. Matthew's ability to play the violin depends on which of the following types of memory?

Procedural

Memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bicycle, are classified as...

Procedural

Asano is the expert for English literature on his school's trivia team. He knows the authors and main characters of many famous novels. Which of the following describes Asano's knowledge of these types of facts?

Sematic Memory

Which of the following scenarios involves using cued recall?

Steven studies a list of word pairs and is later given the first word of each pair and asked to recall tthe second word in the pair.

In legal cases, research on the misinformation effect is most often used to cast doubt on which of the following?

The memory of eyewitnesses

Cassidy can only remember the titles of the first few books her teacher told her to get from the library. Which of the following concepts would best explain Cassidy's experience?

The primacy effect

Which of the following best describes the primacy effect?

When people have better recall of things that occur at the begging of a sequence

In studies of memory reconstruction in which students viewed films of an automobile accident, the major influence on recall was which of the following?

Wording of questions the students were asked about the accident.

Robyn finds a computer repair service online. She silently repeats the phone number in her mind until she locates her phone to call the repair service. Which memory system is most useful for Robyn in this scenario?

Working memory

The difficulty many people have recalling the details of common objects such as pennies can best be explained by...

a lack of encoding

Cesar is participating in a memory competition. He must memorize a long, novel string of numbers in 60 seconds, then try to recall them immediately without missing or misplacing any numbers. Which strategy should Cesar use?

chunking

A teenager would most probably draw on which of the following to recall her tenth birthday party?

episodic memory

Chuck recalls the day last summer when he fell off his bicycle and scraped his knee. This is an example of...

episodic memory

When Judy is asked how many windows are in her home, she figures out the exact answer by mentally walking through her house and taking a count. This retrieval technique relies most heavily on...

imagery

A basic assumption underlying short-term memory is that it is

limited in capacity

Elena is presented with a list of 20 numbers. When asked to recall this list, she remembers more numbers from the beginning than from the end of the list. This phenomenon demonstrates which of the following types of effect?

primacy

Corey has a list of things he needs from the grocery store but forgets his list at home. At the store, Corey struggles to remember the items on his list, but when he sees a display of oranges, he remembers that oranges were on his list. This is an example of...

recognition

Which of the following increases the chance that an individual will remember a telephone number that has been called several times within a short period?

rehearsal

When Lois looks at her wedding pictures, she has vivid memories of the early years of her marriage. The pictures serve as...

retrieval cues

To remember a list of words, Jerry tries walking through his bedroom and making associations between words on the list and various areas he visits in his bedroom. Jerry is trying to improve his memory encoding by using which of the following memory concepts?

the method of loci

The feeling when you know someone's name, but cannot quite recall, is an example of...

the tip of the tongue phenomenon