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Ap Psychology Unit 5A - Memory and 5B - Cognition Review
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Echoic memories fade after approximately
1 minute
1 second
1 hour
3-4 seconds
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When you take credit for an something your friend said thinking it was your own idea.
source amnesia
retrograde amnesia
deja vu
recall vs recognition
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A methodical step by step procedure for solving problems
Insight
Trial and Error
Heuristic
algorithm
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Whorf's linguistic determinism emphazsizes
language influences social status
words shape thinking
languages share similar grammar
infancy is critical period for language
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The place to take your AP Psychology test in is your seat in class, because of
flashbulb memory
mood congruent memory
state dependent memory
context dependent memory
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The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory
Is highly resistant to misleading information
Can resconstruct in recall due to how a quesiton is framed
Is constructed during encoding
Is unchanged once estabolished
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Amnesia patients typically experience disruption of
Echoic memories
Implicit memories
Iconic memories
Explicit memories
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News of a child abduction leads to exaggerated fears about children walking to school
Representative Heuristics
Confirmation Bias
Availability Heuristics
Critical Period
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Which area of the brain is most important in the processing of implicit memories?
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Hypothalamus
Cerebellum
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Mistakenly concluding that the tall person is the basketball player
representative heuristics
confirmation bias
availability heuristics
belief perseverance
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In the words helped and called, the -ed ending is a(n)
phoneme
babble
morpheme
phenotype
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The three steps in memory information processing are
encoding, processing, output
Input, storage, output
Encoding, storage, retrieval
Input, storage, retrieval
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More people buy raffle if there is a 10% chance of winning instead of a 90% chance of losing.
Functional Fixedness
Belief Perseverance
Framing
Mental Set
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Our short-term memory span is approximately ____ items
7
2
5
10
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Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
Syntax
Heuristic
Cognition
Language
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system of rules in language that enable us to communicate
semantics
grammar
syntax
morphemes
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Which of the following was not recommended as a strategy for improving memory?
Encoding meaningful associations
Active rehersal
Speed reading
Distributed study
18
Being unable to tight a screw because you can't find a screwdriver
functional fixedness
mental setb
belief perserverance
confirmation bias
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Noam Chomsky argues that children's readiness to learn language is a(n)
operant conditioning
universal grammar
algorithm
biological predisposition
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Fill-in-the-blank test questions are to multiple-choice questions as
Encoding is to storage
Storage is to encoding
Recognition is to recall
Recall is to recognition
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Grouping information into larger, familiar units known as
Chunking
Organization
Pegword system
Semantic encoding
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Alex is a pretty good athlete and is convinced he is great, so he doesn't practice hard
overconfidence
framing
belief perseverance
representative heuristic
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Mixing new incoming info w/knowledge retrieved from long-term memory involves the activity of
working memory
Sensory memory
Implicit Memory
Explicit Memory
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first demonstration of productive language occurs
two word stage
babbling
one word stage
telegraphic speech
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Brad, who suffered damage to the left side of his hippocampus, has trouble remembering
Locations
All nonverbal information
Verbal information
Visuial designs
26
Visual sensory memory is referred to as
Iconic memory
Photomemory
Echoic memory
Semantic memory
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Football is to Sports as
Algorithm - heuristic
prototype - category
intuition - belief perseverance
Category - prototype
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Memory for skills is called
Implicit memory
Declaritive memory
Prime memory
Explicit memory
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If one is happy, one is more likely to remember other happy times
state dependent memory
Mood congruent memory
long-term potentiation
Flashbulb memory
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Studies demonstrate that learning causes permanent neural changes in the __ of animal's neurons
Myelin
Synapses
Cell bodies
Dendtrites
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Repression is an example of
Memory decay
A memory trace
Encoding failure
Motivated forgetting
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Brainstorming sessions that encourage people to spontaneously suggest new solutions avoid
belief perseverance
fixation
heuristic
confirmation bias
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Memory techniques such as acronyms and the peg-word system are called
Imagery techniques
Consilidation devices
Mnemonic devices
Encoding strategies
