AP psych unit 7 quiz
Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates the role of context effects in memory?
Amy studied for a vocabulary test in the same classroom and at the same time of day as the normal class, and she performed better on the test than students who studied in different classrooms under different conditions.
Professor Belvedere wants to help her anatomy students memorize the names of different parts of the body. Which of the following techniques will best help her students?
Asking them questions about the meaning of each word
Five-year-old Tahani is entering a school where English is the only language spoken, but in her home, her family uses a combination of both English and her family's native language. When she starts school, she takes a test measuring her English language development. Her score is well below that of the other children in her class, most of whom live in homes where only one language is spoken. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for Tahani's test scores?
Because Tahani speaks more than one language, her proficiency in each language may come later than for her monolingual peers.
Which of the following scenarios is an example of retroactive interference?
Carl tries to remember the name of his first boss, but he cannot because he keeps thinking of the name of his current boss.
Maki is a three-month-old living in a household of Japanese speakers. Which of the following best describes how her ability to discriminate phonemes will develop?
Currently, she will likely be able to discriminate the phonemes \l\ and \r\; after she reaches about eight months of age, she will have begun to lose the ability to discriminate these phonemes.
When Gustavo goes through lists of inventory items and thinks about whether each one is a fruit or not, he remembers more of the items on those lists later than when he goes through lists of inventory items and does not think about what each item is. Which of the following concepts best explains Gustavo's performance?
Elaborative encoding, because engaging in deeper processing improves memory.
Which of the following psychologists is most strongly associated with research on false memories?
Elizabeth Loftus
Dr. Rudolph's class has a big test coming up next week. Which of the following students is using a studying strategy that is most likely to lead to memory consolidation?
Elizabeth studies for a half hour before she goes to bed each night the week before the exam.
Which of the following is an example of the tip-of-the-tongue effect?
Emma is telling her friend what she did over summer vacation when she discovers she cannot think of a specific word that she would like to say. She stops telling the story, because she has the distinct feeling that she is about to be able to think of the word if she waits just a moment.
Which of the following best illustrates Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve?
Erik studied Italian in college. After he graduated, he went backpacking in Europe, where he realized he had forgotten a lot of Italian. Years later, he went on another trip to Italy and was surprised to discover that he remembered about the same amount of Italian as during his first trip.
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 describes one of the functions of the temporal lobe of the brain?
It is where declarative memories are stored.
Which of the following is an example of metacognition?
Knowing the effectiveness of different strategies for learning statistical formulas
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, because Catherine failed to encode the word; therefore, the word did not become a part of her long-term memory.
Which of the following activities most directly relies on the hippocampus?
Memorizing the layout of a neighborhood
After visiting her professor's office, Rachel writes down everything she remembers seeing there. She correctly remembers many details, but she falsely remembers seeing books even though there were no books in the office. Additionally, she did not remember seeing a skull that was in the office. Which memory concept best explains why Rachel falsely encoded the books and failed to encode the skull?
Schemas
To help himself remember the name of his new colleague, Hope, Jose thinks about the meaning of her name—the feeling of hopefulness. Which of the following concepts best corresponds to Jose's strategy?
Semantic encoding
The linguistic relativity hypothesis of Benjamin Whorf suggests which of the following?
Speakers of different languages think differently due to the differences in their languages.
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 the second word in the pair.
When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, which of the following will most likely occur?
There will be no transfer of the information to long-term memory.
Which of the following best describes the primacy effect?
When people have better recall of things that occur at the beginning of a sequence
Maria is a thirteen-year-old congenitally deaf child who was born to hearing parents living in a remote, rural area. Since birth her parents have provided love, nourishment, educationally enriching toys, and developed their own hand signals to communicate with her about basic necessities. However, Maria did not begin to learn sign language until she was twelve and the family moved to a city and encountered members of a deaf community. Maria has found it very difficult to learn sign language, no matter what her instructors try. Which of the follow concepts best explains Maria's difficulty learning sign language?
a sensitive period
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
anterograde Amnesia
Which of the following is an example of a prelinguistic event?
babbling
According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves
encoding
An individual's ability to remember the day he or she first swam the length of a swimming pool is most clearly an example of which of the following kids of memory?
episodic
A teenager would most probably draw on which of the following to recall her tenth birthday party?
episodic memory
When a list of words is learned in order, the words most likely to be forgotten are those that are
in the middle of the list
Wolfgang Köhler considered a chimpanzee's sudden solving of a problem evidence of
insight
In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz. During a recall test, participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A. Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in
levels of processing
A word or part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful units, is called a
morphene
The cerebellum is most directly involved in
motor learning
All human languages have several basic sounds in common called
phonemes
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
Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as
procedural
The difference between divided attention and selective attention is that divided attention
requires more automatic processing than selective attention does
The rules of grammar are rules of
syntax
Which of the following concepts refers to the structure and organization of a sentence?
syntax
A person assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?
the serial position effect
Noam Chomsky's view of language proposes that
there is an inherent language acquisition device