AP Psychology Cognition Review

Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as:

• Declarative memory

• Procedural memory

• Repressed memory

• Semantic memory

• Sensory memory

If you studied French in high school, you might have a hard time learning Spanish vocabulary words in college because of:

• Decay

• Dual coding

• Generalization

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

Retrograde amnesia is a phenomenon in which a person suffers a brain injury from a stroke or an accident and loses memory of what?

• Events immediately before the injury

• Childhood events before age 8

• Declarative memory

• Events immediately after the injury

• Procedural memory

The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows:

• A bell-shaped curve

• A gradual drop in retention followed by a steep decline

• A steady, gradual decrease of memory over time

• A steep initial drop in retention followed by a gradual decline

• Higher retention for rote learning than for concept learning

What is memory loss that occurs only as a result of the passage of time called?

• Amnesia

• Decay

• Dementia

• Interference

• Natural forgetting

Damage to or removal of what part of the brain can cause anterograde amnesia?

• Cerebellum

• Corpus callosum

• Hippocampus

• Hypothalamus

• Thalamus

The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied, and incorporated into memory is known as:

• Appraisal

• Chunking

• Encoding

• Feature detection

• Retrieval

The capacity of working memory, according to Miller’s Law, is quantified as:

• 7 ± 2 bits

• 7 ± 2 chunks

• 7 ± 3 chunks

• 9 ± 2 bits

• 9 ± 2 chunks

“Last night, I ate Chipotle for dinner” is an example of what type of memory?

• Episodic

• Flashbulb

• Procedural

• Semantic

• Taste aversion

“French toast, pancakes, and eggs are all common breakfast foods” is an example of what type of memory?

• Episodic

• Flashbulb

• Procedural

• Schema

• Semantic