AP Psych Cognition-Memory, Thinking & Forgetting

According to the serial position effect, you will remember more: 

• items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.
• nitems in the middle of a list, than at the beginning and end.
• vocabulary words if you process them visually.
• nvocabulary words if you process them acoustically.

Which of the following processes is likely to result in the best memory for words?

• visual encoding
• acoustic encoding
• rote memorization
• semantic encoding

Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the: 

• amygdala.
• hypothalamus.
• sensory cortex.
• motor cortex.

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:

• repression.
• retroactive interference.
• encoding failure.
• source amnesia.

Any system that encodes, stores and retrieves information

• Chunking
• Memory
• Sensory experience
• Rehearsal

Preserves brief sensory impression for only a fraction of a second.

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

Has unlimited storage capacity

• Working memory
• Short-term memory
• Sensory memory
• Long-term memory

Kevin seems to be able to communicate, but isn't following the rules of language, which are known as _____

• semantics

• morphemes

• phonemes

• syntax

What is creativity?

• the ability to produce or develop original work, theories, techniques, or thoughts

• the ability to use imagination, originality, and expressiveness.

• convergent thinking

• problem solving which deviates from commonly used or previously taught strategies

An algorithm is best described as

• a step-by-step problem-solving model.

• trial and error.

• the best example of its type.

• all of the words in a language.