Cognitive Psychology

The inability to retrieve or recall information before the traumatic event. You still are able to make new memories.

Jessica only knows spanking to be the one way to deal with conflict with her children. This is called :

What part of the brain is important for remembering emotionally-triggered events?

Using PEMDAS to remember the order of operations is an example of :

Maylee thinks she remembers visiting Disney World when she was 3 but she just remembers what her sister told her...

What is the idea that language determines the way that we think?

Our implicit/automatic memory is very good at remembering space, time, and :

 Abby has just started to make babbling sounds. If she is an ordinary infant, how old is she?

Short-term memory has the capacity of about how many items?

Which action is most likely to lead to remembering a list of words?

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as I-knew-it-all-along)

 ________ is the  tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood : 

  _________  is the process of getting information out of memory :

What are implicit memories?

Based on the serial position effect, what word(s) is the person most likely to remember with twenty words in a row?

Hunter is walking by a neighborhood and gets a feeling that he has done this once before. What is he experiencing?

Hamza believes the moon landing was a hoax and dismisses all credible evidence to the contrary. This is called :

You are asked to close your eyes and create an image of a tree. The image you create is called a :

Memorizing a poem for class is an example of what kind of memory?

Which one of these people was known for testing with how quickly we forget?

A multiple choice test is more appealing and rewarding to students who excel at :

 The inability to remember events that occurred during one's early years (before age three).

After getting into a motorcycle accident, Kevin only speaks nonsensical words and sentences. What is this?

  _______ is a web-like cognitive system which helps us organize and make sense of information. 

Kylie walks from her bedroom to the kitchen but forgets what she needs until she returns back to her bedroom

“Drink water” uttered by a two-year old is an example of :

How often do current memory researchers think that Freud’s defense mechanism of repression occurs?

Grandma can’t remember what day it is but she remembers events from her childhood clearly. What kind of amnesia is this?

Erica cannot remember her old phone number because her new phone number keeps popping into her head. This is called :

Which is  a unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another in a particular language? 

Laura struggled to respond to a series of basic questions after she suffered a stroke. This is most likely :

What part of the brain processes implicit/muscle memory?

Owen recalls the one time he won at cards which makes him eager to play again. This is called :

What kind of memories are emotional and vivid?

Loss of the ability to create new memories after a brain damaging event while long-term memories from before are intact

  _______ is the set of rules by which we drive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language.

When solving day-to-day problems, a person relies on :

  Confusing the source of information is :

The tendency to think of objects only in terms of their usual uses; an impediment to problem solving :

Asking a person a question a particular way to get a specific response is an example of :

__________ is the tendency to overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states :

What part of the brain processes explicit memories?

Swany slipped and he hit his head and cannot remember anything prior to the accident. What kind of amnesia is this?

Mr. Qua asks his students to come up with different questions to put in a Quiz. This is called :

How long do iconic memories normally last for?

What does Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve suggest about your memory of all the knowledge you learned in AP Psychology?

What is the processing of information getting into the memory system?

Emily is studying late at night and suddenly the answer to a problem comes to her out of the blue. This is called :

What is a step by step procedure that guarantees to solve a problem?

Condition of being almost able to remember something; used to investigate the nature of semantic memory :