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AP Psychology - Memory
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Elizabeth Loftus described the...
spacing effect
recency effect
serial position effect
misinformation effect
2
You call your current girlfriend by your old girlfriend's name, demonstrating...
mood-congruent memory
proactive interference
retroactive interference
prospective interference
3
The ________ plays a major role in learned fears and emotional memories.
amygdala
cerebral cortex
cerebellum
hippocampus
4
People tend to only recall the first and last items in a list accurately, illustrating...
serial-position effect
spacing effect
recency effect
misinformation effect
5
Conscious memory of factual information is called _________ memory.
proactive
explicit
retroactive
implicit
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The sound of a word or memory is processed through _______ encoding.
phonemic
structural
semantic
consolidated
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Locking away the knowledge that a loved one has died is a form of motivated forgetting known as
consolidation
encoding-specificity processing
transfer-appropriate processing
repression
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Semantic encoding refers to the processing of…
sights
touch sensations
sounds
meanings
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Which type of encoding provides the highest level of recall?
phonemic
structural
semantic
episodic
10
Fill-in-the-blank test questions measure...
rehearsal
recognition
relearning
recall
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PEMDAS is an example of...
sensory memory
a mnemonic device
consolidation
chunking
12
Rearranging incoming information into meaningful or familiar patterns is known as...
chunking
recall
clustering
retrieval
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The process of memory is…
Storage --> retrieval --> encoding
encoding --> storage --> retrieval
Storage --> encoding --> retrieval
retrieval --> storage --> encoding
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The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as…
interference
long-term potentiation
consolidation
chunking
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Retroactive interference involves the disruption of…
memory retrieval
iconic memory
automatic processing
semantic encoding
16
Lucy's inability to create new memories after her car accident is an example of...
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
source-monitoring error
reality monitoring
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Multiple-choice test questions measure...
recall
relearning
recognition
rehearsal
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Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called…
repressed memories
flashbulb memories
implicit memories
explicit memories
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The ___________is crucial to the consolidation of memories, along with its adjacent structures.
hypothalamus
hippocampus
amygdala
cerebellum
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What theory proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade over time?
decay
interference
episodic memory
semantic memory
