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