AP Psych Review: Cognitive Psychology

Sensory information is changed into a usable form to enter short term memory in the process of

• memory
• storage
• encoding
• retrieval

_______ is a fleeting mental image or visual representation

• Iconic memory
• Echoic memory
• Sensory Memory
• long term memory

What of the following refers to memories for skills such as tying your shoe laces?

• declarative
• explicit
• flashbulb
• procedural

This question requires which type of retrieval?

• recall
• recognition
• relearning
• revision

Forgetting because we never formed the memory in the first place is

• memory trace delay
• interference
• encoding failure
• repression

The fading of memories is also referred to as

• misinformation effect
• memory trace decay
• memory interference
• memory decomposition

Forgetting your new cell phone # because the you had the old one for 4 years, is an example of

• Retroactive interference
• Proactive Interference
• Motivated forgetting
• Fading of the memory trace

Any type of memory aid is known as

• Recognition
• A recall system
• Total recall
• A mnemonic device

If you experience knowing a person's name but it is not quite retrievable, this is called..

• Tip of the tongue phenomenon
• False memory
• serial position effect
• semantic

Which is NOT one of the three basic units of thought?

• image
• prototype
• concept
• language