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AP Psychology: Cognition
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AP Psychology unit on #cognition
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What is nondeclarative memory?
Memory for habits
All of the above
Memory for skills
A type of long-term memory
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What is recall?
Retrieval in which we "pull out" information from memory
Chucking long numbers into parts
Memory that involves identifying stored information
Saying material repeatedly to commit it to memory
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What is echoic memory?
Occurs when physical surrounding become encoded as cues
Visual sensory memory
Auditory sensory memory
Memory retrieval in which we "pull out" information
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What is Noam Chomsky known for?
being the president
the Stanford prison experiment
his work with wire mother monkeys
The language acquisition device
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The capacity for long-term memories is seemingly unlimited.
True
False
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What is an algorithm?
Trial and error method to solve problems
A strategy that narrows down possible solutions for problems
A step by step procedure
An idea that represents a class or category of events
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What is recognition?
The process of repeatedly verbalizing information
Automatic encoding
Identifying stored information from a set of choices
Information being actively reviewed
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What is a phoneme?
smallest unit of meaning
Basic unit of sound
words for determining meaning
Rules for combining words and phrases
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What is retrograde amnesia?
when you're able to remember info, not where you learned it
Memory for anything new becomes impossible
loss of memory from the point of some injury
when you can't remember the first few years of life
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What is infantile amnesia?
The ability to recall images after only mere exposure
When you can't remember the first few years of your life
The theory the memory decays over times
Loss of memory from the point of some injury
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What sport does Mr.Parks coach?
Football
Golf
Swimming
Equestrian team
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What is syntax?
all of the above
Speech during two-word stage of language acquisition
Rules for combining words and phrases
basic unit of sound
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What is declarative memory?
Memory for habits
Where information is held while it's being used
General facts and personal experience
Memory for skills
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Episodic memory is _____
Memory for skills, habits, and conditioned responses
Events experienced by a person
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What is functional fixedness?
presentation of a fact framed from a particular perspective
A tendency to approach situations the same way
Favoring information that confirms your beliefs
a tendency to view objects as only working in a certain way
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What is deductive reasoning?
When you go from the general to the specific
making broad generalizations from specific observations
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Retroactive interference is the forgetting of new info. due to something you learned prior
False
True
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What is iconic memory?
Where information is held while it is conscious
Visual short term memory
Memory about facts or general knowledge
Auditory sensory memory
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How long does short-term memory last without rehearsal?
11 minutes
Forever
30 Seconds
45 seconds
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Source amnesia is when you don't remember where you where when an event occurred.
False
True
21
What study was Elizabeth Loftus famous for?
The Stanford prison experiment
Little Alfred
Eyewitness testimony
Asch line experiment
22
What are the three memory processes?
STM, LTM, and episodic memory
Encoding, memory, and retrieval
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
Iconic, episodic, and latent
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Anterograde amnesia is when memory for anything new becomes impossible.
True
False
24
Semantic memory is ____
Facts and general knowledge
Events experienced by a person
25
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to comprehend language
false!
trueeee
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Confirmation bias involves favoring information that confirms previously existing beliefs.
false
true
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Elaborative rehearsal is when information is actively reviewed and related to info in the LTM.
True
False
28
What is insight?
Smallest unit of meaning
the sudden perception of a solution to a problem
A tendency to approach situations the same way
when exposure to one stimulus influences a response
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What is maintenance rehearsal?
Occurs when newly learned information interferes with old
Where information is held while it's being used
Memory about facts/general knowledge
the process of repeatedly verbalizing a piece of information
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What is the serial position effect?
Remembering information, but not where you learned it
Step by step procedures
When people remember the beginning and end of a list better
Loss of memory from the point of some injury
