AP Psychology Unit 7

Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as: 

• the representativeness heuristic.

• belief perseverance.

• confirmation bias.

• functional fixedness.

“The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory.

• short-term
  

• explicit

• implicit

• sensory

What is the term for the mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events?

• A) Perception

• B) Sensation

• C) Cognition

• D) Intuition

Which theory suggests that dreams are the brain's attempt to synthesize random neural activity?

• A) Activation-synthesis theory

• B) Information-processing theory

• C) Cognitive development theory

• D) Psychoanalytic theory

In classical conditioning, what is the term for the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus?

• A) Unconditioned response

• B) Conditioned response

• C) Unconditioned stimulus

• D) Conditioned stimulus

What is the name of the phenomenon where people are more likely to remember the first and last items in a list?

• A) Serial position effect

• B) Primacy effect

• C) Recency effect

• D) Von Restorff effect

Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for forming new memories?

• A) Hippocampus

• B) Amygdala

• C) Cerebellum

• D) Thalamus

What is the term for the inability to retrieve information from one's past?

• A) Anterograde amnesia

• B) Retrograde amnesia

• C) Source amnesia

• D) Infantile amnesia

Which type of memory is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing?

• A) Long-term memory

• B) Short-term memory

• C) Sensory memory

• D) Working memory

What is the term for a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people?

• A) Prototype

• B) Concept

• C) Schema

• D) Heuristic