AP Psychology Memory

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

Which of the following is not related to forgetting?

• Retroactive interference
• Repression
• Decay
• Long term potentiation

Which of the following is not a part of working memory?

• Phonological Loop

• Visual-Spatial Sketchpad

• Central Executive

• Hippocampus

Which of the following memories happen with conscious awareness?

• Implicit Memories
• Episodic Memories
• Procedural Memories
• Repressive Memories

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

• Sensory Memory
• Short Term Memory
• Working Memory
• Long Term Memory

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

Which of the following is not a method to encode information?

• Chunking

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Selective Attention

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

• Having a strong emotional experience to a memory.
• Spaced Practice
• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Mass Practice

Elizabeth Loftus did work related to 

• accurate memories being found during hypnosis
• Constructive memory processing
• Finding memory traces or engrams.
• Holding 7 bits of information in STM (+ or - 2)

According to _________ theory, you are likely to form memories that mirror your emotional state.

• Mood congruent
• flashbulb memory

• episodic memory
• priming