AP Psych Unit 7A: Memory

The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___ effect

• serial position
• misinformation
• next-in-line
• priming

Kathy performs better on foreign language vocabulary tests if she studies the material 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test.  This illustrates:

• the spacing effect
• the serial position effect
• mood-congruent memory
• chunking

A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ____ memory

• iconic
• implicit
• short-term
• long-term

A mnemonic device is a:

• mental picture
• test or measure of memory
• memory aid
• word, event, or place that triggers a memory of the past

The hippocampus plays a critical role in __ memory

• iconic
• explicit
• echoic
• implicit 

A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test. 

• recall 
• memory 
• rehearsal
• recognition

The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system. 

• echoic memory
• sensory memory
• working memory
• short term memory

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. 

• relearning 
• chunking 
• encoding
• priming

The activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response. 

•  memory
• encoding
•  priming
• chunking

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second. 

• iconic memory
• implicit memory
• echoic memory
• working memory