AP Psychology: Memory review

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

Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory? 

• a mental image of one's best friend.
• the date of one's own birth.
• a conditioned fear of guns
• knowing own name.

Priming refers to:

• the sense that one has been in a particular situation before.

• activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.

• attributing a memory to an erroneous source.

• the activation of associations in memory.

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.

• anterograde amnesia.

• source amnesia.

The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve: 

• implicit memory.
• automatic processing.
• long-term potentiation.
• memory construction.

Which of the following would be predicted by Ebbinghaus’ famous forgetting curve? Several years after learning the dates of important historical events for a college class, students:

• will remember most of the dates, and will remember them for years to come.

• will remember most of the dates, and will slowly start to forget them.

• will have forgotten most of the dates, but what they do remember, they’ll remember for years to come.

• will have forgotten most of the dates, but during the years to come, they will again remember what they initially forgot.

You are used to driving a car with a standard shift.  Today you are driving a friend’s car that has an automatic transmission.  As you drive, you keep trying to shift gears, but there is no shift.  This tendency is most likely due to: 

• nretroactive interference.
• proactive interference.
• motivated forgetting.
• encoding failure.

We have all had the experience of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.  We are asked to remember someone’s name.  We are certain that we know the name and feel as if we are just about to remember it, yet it remains elusive.  What type of forgetting might be at work here?

• encoding failure
• retroactive interference
• retrieval failure
• motivated forgetting

The reason most North Americans cannot accurately describe the head of a penny is due to:

• storage decay.
• retrieval failure.
• encoding failure.
• motivated forgetting.