AP Psychology: 5.4-5.6 Retrieving, Forgetting, Bio Basis Mem

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

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.

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

Which of the following has a tendency to be the hardest way to learn something?

• When positive transfer occurs.
• Using shallow processing.
• Using elaborative rehearsal
• Using deep processing.

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

• Having a strong emotional experience to a memory.
• Spaced Practice
• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Mass Practice

Elizabeth Loftus did work related to 

• accurate memories being found during hypnosis
• Constructive memory processing
• Finding memory traces or engrams.
• Holding 7 bits of information in STM (+ or - 2)

According to _________ theory, you not consciously aware of how external stimuli have shaped your behavioral responses.  

• Constructive memory
• repressive memory
• episodic memory
• priming

Which brain part is responsible for facilitating explicit memories?

• brain stem
• cerebellum
• amygdala
• hippocampus

What is the term that states we remember the first (primacy) and last (recency) items on a list?

• State-Dependent Learning

• Mood Congruent Memory

• Retrieval Failure

• Serial Position Effect

• Recall