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