AP Psychology Quiz 7A - Memory (15 Questions)

The following is a quiz with the Memory based questions.

Take this quiz as often as you would like. You goal for this exam should be 60% or higher.

{ An image blinks briefly on a screen and a person is then asked to recall the top line of letters; if he or she is able to recall them with relative ease, he or she has utilized |type="[]"} +iconic memory -the hindsight bias -long term memory -the availability heuristic -priming

{ Our short term memory recall capacity is |type="[]"} -three items plus or minus one or two -four items plus or minus one or two +seven items plus or minus one or two -nine items plus or minus one or two -unlimited

{ Sensory memory that is responsible for storing auditory information is referred to as which of the following? |type="[]"} -Iconic +Echoic -Declarative -Auditory -Elaborative

{ According to the information processing model, which of the following determines what sensory messages are encoded in short-term memory? |type="[]"} -Recall -State dependent memory -Recency effect -Recognition +Selective attention

{ According to the levels of processing theory, |type="[]"} -the more time we spend on reading a book, the better we will remember details from that book -objects that have greater personal importance will be recalled more effectively then those with little personal relevance +thinking about the relationships and meanings of a given set of concepts will promote better learning -rote memorization provides the most effective tool for effective long term memory storage -people have the tendency to forget past events and experiences that are not compatible with the schema they currently hold about themselves

{ James is able to examine a picture for several seconds and describe in vivid detail the picture later - even when several hours have past. |type="[]"} This phenomenon is known as +the relearning effect -eidetic memory -long-term potentiation -selective attention -the recency effect

{ Methods which enhance the encoding of new information are referred to as |type="[]"} +mnemonics -persistence strategies -concepts -algorithms -heuristics

{ Base your answer on the following paragraph.

Frank is studying for his psychology test in the morning. He opens his textbook and begins repeating the definitions for vocabulary until he commits them to memory A better learning strategy that Frank could utilize is referred to as |type="[]"} -chunking +elaborative rehearsal -acoustic encoding -eidetic imagery -maintenance rehearsal

{ Dan's wife asks him to go to the grocery store to pick up some items for dinner. She tells him to get hamburgers, ketchup, mustard, cheese, pickles, hot dogs, soda and chips.

According to the serial position effect, which items is Dan most likely going to remember? |type="[]"} -hamburgers and ketchup -soda and chips -pickles and hot dogs +hamburgers and chips -cheese, hamburgers, pickles

{ Eyewitness testimony |type="[]"} +can be influenced by leading questions -is not a credible source of information -is often underestimated by juries -is not subject to personal interpretations -is more accurate when the witness is more confident

{ A person who suffered a seizure which permanently altered his brain structure, and as a result can no longer recall his life before the seizure occurred, may be suffering from |type="[]"} -dissociative amnesia +retrograde amnesia -source amnesia -hippocampal dysfunction -anterograde amnesia

{ A student studying for his United States History exam begins studying for his Latin American history exam. If this student experiences proactive interference, he probably |type="[]"} -will remember United States history while trying to think of Latin American history material +will remember a mixture of Latin American and United States history -will recall Latin American history with ease -will remember Latin American history material while trying to think of United States history -will have difficulty remembering both United States and Latin American history

{ Which of the following is NOT an explanation for forgetting? |type="[]"} -Encoding failure -Storage decay +Generalization -Interference -Misinformation

{ Confabulation is a symptom of which of the following disorders? |type="[]"} -Parkinson's disease -Alzheimer's disease -Retrograde amnesia -Anterograde amnesia +Korsakoff's syndrome

{ Consolidation refers to the process by which |type="[]"} -sensory memories are changed to short term memory -working memory is utilized +short term memory is changed to long term memory -the amygdala begins long term potentiation -long term memories leave neural imprints on nerve cells