AP Psychology units 1-9 review

The following would be examples of procedural memory (implicit memory)

• Riding a bike

• Stating a random fact

• Driving a car

• Singing your favorite song with ease while it is playing

• Learning a chemical compound

Echoic memory relates the best to this sense (a)  

The following would be examples of explicit memory

• Riding a bike

• Stating random facts

• Declaring an event is on Tuesday

• Typing on a keyboard

• Telling a friend about a birthday party that happened three days ago

A researcher wanted to do an experiment testing whether listening to Christmas music makes you happy. She placed subjects in either the experimental group that listened to Christmas music for an hour or the control group that did not listen to music. Which method should she use to make these groups?

• Random Sampling

• Random Assignment

• A double-blind design

• Frequency

This is an example of

• Positive Skew

• Negative Skew

• Positive Correlation

• Negative Correlation

Which area of the brain is associated with the joy you feel when you unwrap a Christmas present?

• Limbic System

• Corpus Callosum

• Occipital Lobe

• Medulla

What are the components of memory?

• long term memory, sensory memory, the amygdala

• Basal Ganglia, amygdala, hippocampus

• Encoding, storage, retrieval

• Storage, memory, hippocampus

This part of the brain deals with stress and emotions. In very stressful or intense memory can be affected

• Amygdala

• Hippocampus

• Occipital Lobe

• Basal Ganglia

The condition that exists when the probability that the findings are not due to chance

• statistical significance
• experimenter bias
• confounding variables

You know you need flour, butter and sugar for your Christmas cookie recipe, and you remember the amounts are 1/2 cup, 1 cup and 2 cups, but you don't remember which number goes with which ingredient. Trying every possible combination of the 3 numbers with different ingedients would be considered:

• A heuristic

• An algorithm

• A mnenomic

• Cognitive restructuring