AP Psych Unit 5

The inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to a failure in

encoding

Which of the following best describes explicit memories?

include memory for general knowledge

Daniel was asked to write down as many words as he could think of that contained the letter d. To complete this task Daniel would rely on

divergent thinking

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

working memory

Every day as she walks to school, Susana 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?

Susana has not paid attention to the incoming information so it was not encoded into long-term memory

During the course of a day, people may unconsciously encode the sequence of the day's events. This best illustrates

automatic processing

Amira has such low self-esteem that she typically expects critical comments about her appearance and behavior. Amira's behavior best illustrates the dangers of

confirmation bias

The danger of using the representativeness heuristic is that it may lead us to

disregard probability information that is relevant to our judgements

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-congruent memory

Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their memory failure best illustrates

motivated forgetting

The inability to remember events in one's life which occurred prior to a brain injury is known as

retrograde amnesia

Craik and Tulving experimentally demonstrated that people effectively remember seeing a specific word after they decide whether that word fits into an incomplete sentence. This research highlighted the effectiveness of

semantic encoding

The process by which information is encoded by its meaning is called

semantic encoding

Some information in our fleeting ________ is encoded into short-term memory.

sensory memory