AP Psychology Standard 5.1 MEMORY full quiz

Match the following

• capacity unlimited

• Short term memory

• retained for 2-3 seconds and mostly lost

• Sensory memory

• memory stored for about 30 seconds

• Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin

• Multi-store model

• Long term memory

• Informational Processing System

• George A. Miller

Match the following

• memory of repetitive activities

• procedural memory

• remembering planned future actions

• episodic memory

• memories of personal experiences

• prospective memories

• memory that is remembered unconsciously

• implicit memory

• memory of facts, ideas and concepts

  
  

• semantic memory

Reorder the following

• Sensory memory

• attention (1% remembered)

• Short term memory

• encoding (rehearsal)

• Long term memory

For example, if you are at a party, you can listen to your friend speaking while ignoring everyone speaking around you, despite their volume.

• divided attention

• selective attention

• explicit memory

• encoding

This type of memory includes two types: Semantic and Episodic

• Short-term

• Long-term

• Implicit

• Explicit

One way to master a topic and free up working memory is to master a skill or content until you can do it quickly, like dribbling a basketball or soccer ball; multiplication. This is called:

• automatic processing

• effortful processing

• selective attention

Remembering to take medicine at night before going to bed is what type of memory?

• implicit

• short term

• prospective

• procedural

Match the following types of sensory memory

• smell

• gustatory

• sound

• olfactory

• taste

• iconic

• sight

• echoic

As we learn something again and again, we strengthen and enlarge which part of the neuron?

• synapse connections

• axon

• nucleus

• myelin sheath

When learning something new, if you focus on the MEANING, this helps create:

• automatic processing

• metacognition

• deep processing

• shallow processing