AP Psych Unit 5 FAC 2023

Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events, such as 9/11, are called

• repressed memories.
• sensory memories
• mood-congruent memories
• flashbulb memories

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
• Massed Practice

Elizabeth Loftus did work related to 

• accurate memories being found during hypnosis
• Constructive memory processing
• forgetting curves

• Holding 7 bits of information in STM (+ or - 2)

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

• Mood congruent
• Mood dependent
• episodic memory
• priming

Which brain part is responsible for facilitating explicit memories?

• brain stem
• cerebellum
• amygdala
• hippocampus

Learning the the United States stopped importing all oil and energy from Russia but not be able to identify where you learned this information is an example of

• retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Source amnesia

• constructed memory processing

Depending on the person, this memories capacity is 5-9 items and lasts about 5-20 seconds

• Sensory memory

• Long term memory

• Implicit memory

• Working memory

Match the following types of sensory memory

• Iconic

• What you hear

• Haptic

• What you feel

• Echoic

• What you see

This type of memory is unlimited and can last a lifetime

• Sensory memory

• Long term memory

• Working memory

• Full-time memory