AP Psychology Cognition Review

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Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as:

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Procedural memory

Front

If you studied French in high school, you might have a hard time learning Spanish vocabulary words in college because of:

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Proactive interference

Front

Retrograde amnesia is a phenomenon in which a person suffers a brain injury from a stroke or an accident and loses memory of what?

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Events immediately before the injury

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The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows:

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A steep initial drop in retention followed by a gradual decline

Front

What is memory loss that occurs only as a result of the passage of time called?

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Decay

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Damage to or removal of what part of the brain can cause anterograde amnesia?

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Hippocampus

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The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied, and incorporated into memory is known as:

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Encoding

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The capacity of working memory, according to Miller’s Law, is quantified as:

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7 ± 2 chunks

Front

“Last night, I ate Chipotle for dinner” is an example of what type of memory?

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Episodic

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“French toast, pancakes, and eggs are all common breakfast foods” is an example of what type of memory?

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Semantic