AP Psychology UNIT 7: Chapter 11-12

The term used to describe the mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge is:

• Cognition
• Learning
• Perception
• Sensation

A prototype is a:

• Step-by-step procedure for solving problems
• Mental grouping of similar objects, events or people
• Best example of a particular category
• Simple thinking strategy for solving problems efficiently

The child who says “milk gone” is engaging in ____________. This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of ____________.

• Babbling; syntax
• Telegraphic speech; syntax
• Babbling; semantics
• Telegraphic speech; semantics

Holds about 7 items at a time

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

Has unlimited storage capacity

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

Part of LTM that stores memories of how things are done.

• Declarative memory
• Acoustic memory
  Elaborative memory
• Acoustic memory
• Procedural memory

A memory of something that was NOT deliberately learned.

• Implicit memory
• Explicit memory
• Retrieval cues
• Acoustic memory

Memory of something that WAS deliberately learned.

• Implicit memory
• Explicit memory
• Retrieval cues
• Acoustic memory

Forgetting caused by lapses in attention

• Blocking
• Transience
• Misattribution
• Absent-mindedness

Techniques used to improve memory.

• Bias
• Persistence
• Mnemonic
• Transience