AP Psychology- Vocabulary List 17

What is the process of organizing items into familiar, manageable units that often occurs automatically?

• Echoic memory

• Chunking

• Effortful processing

• Storage

Which type of memory involves a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli?

• Iconic memory

• Explicit memory

• Echoic memory

• Implicit memory

What is the unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and frequency called?

• Automatic processing

• Effortful processing

• Encoding

• Parallel processing

Which type of memory requires attention and conscious effort for encoding?

• Implicit memory

• Explicit memory

• Effortful processing

• Automatic processing

What is the retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare called?

• Implicit memory

• Explicit memory

• Iconic memory

• Echoic memory

What is the process of information entering the memory system by extracting meaning?

• Storage

• Encoding

• Chunking

• Parallel processing

Which type of memory involves retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection?

• Explicit memory

• Implicit memory

• Iconic memory

• Echoic memory

What is a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli called?

• Echoic memory

• Iconic memory

• Explicit memory

• Implicit memory

What are frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so called?

• Storage neurons

• Mirror neurons

• Sensory neurons

• Motor neurons

What term describes positive, constructive, helpful behavior?

• Antisocial behavior

• Prosocial behavior

• Automatic processing

• Effortful processing