AP Psychology - Memory

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Sensory Memory

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

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

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

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

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

According to _________ theory, you are likely to form memories that mirror your emotional state.

• Mood congruent
• Mood dependent
• episodic memory
• priming

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

• Constructive memory
• repressive memory
• episodic memory
• priming

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.

Which brain part is responsible for facilitating explicit memories?

• brain stem
• cerebellum
• amygdala
• hippocampus

Using the Atkinson Shriffin memory model, which process forms a LTM from STM

• selective attention
• recalling
• storage
• encoding

Which type of sensory memory works with visual stimuli?

• Short-Term memory

• Working memory

• Iconic Memory

• Echoic Memory

• Explicit Memory