AP Psychology Memory Quiz

Which of the following put the stages of memory in the correct order?

• encoding, storage, retrieval

• storage, encoding, retrieval

• encoding, retrieval, storage

• retrieval, storage, encoding

• storage, retrieval, encoding

During English class, Caleb is worried about an unfinished history project he needs to turn in later in the day. While the English teacher and other students discuss a short story the class just read, Caleb's attention is focused on how to finish the history project. The next day he is unable to recall the short story details presented in English class. The recall problem is most likely due to

• retroactive interference

• proactive interference

• source amnesia

• encoding failure

• retrieval failure

The cerebellum is most directly involved in

• forming emotional memories

• forming explicit and spatial memories

• judgment, higher-order cognition, and personality

• sensory processing and relaying

• motor learning

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates the role of context effects in memory?

• Jonah tutored his classmate on a difficult concept, and now he understands the concept better than he did before tutoring his classmate.

• Amy studied for a vocabulary test in the same classroom and at the same time of day as the normal class, and she performed better on the test than students who studied in different classrooms under different conditions.

• Mateo studied for an anatomy exam while taking pain medication, which he did not take before the exam. He forgot many of the concepts that he learned when he was studying.

• Dina could not remember the name of her second-grade teacher, but after she thought about the names of her classmates, the teacher's name suddenly came to her.

• Glenn vividly remembered the details of a car crash he was involved in, but he remembered very little about the rest of the day.

According to research by Fergus I. M. Craik and Endel Tulving on levels of processing, which of the following would most improve the ability to recall the word "umbrella"?

• Counting the number of syllables in the word "umbrella"

• Deciding whether an umbrella would be useful to pack for a trip

• Mentally spelling the word "umbrella"

• Writing the word "umbrella"

• Deciding whether the word “umbrella” rhymes with the word "banana”

A teacher has to learn 170 new student names every year and finds it difficult to remember the names of former students. The teacher's memory problem most likely results from

• proactive interference

• retroactive interference

• retroactive amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• the misinformation effect

Dr. Roberts conducts a study in which one group of participants counts the number of syllables in each member of a list of twenty words, and the second group creates stories from the same set of words. When later asked to write down as many of the previously seen words as possible, the second group of participants recalls more words than the first group. This study shows the importance of

• the pragmatics of language

• semantic encoding

• maintenance rehearsal

• convergent thinking

• shallow processing

After having a stroke resulting from a blockage of blood to the medial temporal lobe, Gerald could not remember new information, such as the books he had just read, new songs he had just heard, or the faces of new people he had just met. Gerald was experiencing

• dissociative fugue

• dissociative amnesia

• retrograde amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• conversion disorder

People who have difficulty remembering recently learned materials because of similar information learned earlier in life are demonstrating the phenomenon of

• cue-dependent forgetting

• retroactive interference

• reconstruction

• Probability of Recall

• repression

While he is at soccer practice, Erwin reminds himself that he has to stop at the grocery store on the way home to pick up milk and cereal for tomorrow's breakfast. What sort of memory is Erwin using?

• Prospective

• Flashbulb

• Procedural

• Sensory

• Semantic