Module 33: AP Psychology

Muhammad has been in his school cafeteria hundreds of times. It is a large room, and there are nine free-standing pillars that support the roof. One day, to illustrate the nature of forgetting, Muhammad's teacher asks him how many pillars there are in the cafeteria. Muhammad has difficulty answering the question, but finally replies that he thinks there are six pillars. What memory concept does this example illustrate?

• Storage decay

• Retrograde amnesia

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Encoding failure

Suzanne gets a new phone number. Each time she tries to give someone the new number, she gives her old one instead. The fact that her old number is causing difficulty in her remembering of the new one is an example of

• retroactive interference.

• retrograde amnesia.

• priming.

• proactive interference.

• anterograde amnesia

The mental activity associated with remembering, thinking, and knowing is called

• cognition.

• a concept.

• a prototype.

• convergent thinking.

• divergent thinking.

Austin can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. Austin's poor memory is best explained in terms of

• storage decay.

• proactive interference.

• encoding failure.

• retroactive interference.

• source amnesia.

The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve indicates that how well we remember information depends on

• how long ago we learned that information.

• the nature of our mood during encoding and retrieval.

• whether the information is part of our implicit or explicit memory.

• whether the information was learned by deep or shallow processing.

• whether proactive interference occurred.

Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name. Judy's poor memory most likely results from a failure in

• storage.

• encoding.

• rehearsal.

• retrieval.

• automatic processing.

Arnold so easily remembers his old girlfriend's telephone number that he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend's number. Arnold's difficulty best illustrates

• retroactive interference.

• priming.

• source amnesia.

• proactive interference.

• repression.

After studying biology all afternoon, Alonzo is having difficulty remembering details of 8the organic chemistry material that he memorized that morning. Alonzo's difficulty best illustrates

• transience.

• retroactive interference.

• the spacing effect.

• proactive interference.

• source amnesia.

The eerie sense of having previously experienced a situation is known as

• implicit memory.

• the serial position effect.

• mood-congruent memory.

• source amnesia.

• déjà vu.

After reading a newspaper report suggesting that drunken driving might have contributed to a recent auto accident, several people who actually witnessed the accident began to remember the driver involved as traveling more recklessly than was actually the case. This provides an example of

• proactive interference.

• the serial position effect.

• state-dependent memory.

• the self-reference effect.

• the misinformation effect.