Unit 7 AP Psychology

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.

Elizabeth Loftus did work related to

• accurate memories being found during hypnosis

• repressed and false memories

• the forgetting curve.

• the capacity and duration of short term memory.

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

• Having a strong emotional experience to a memory.

• Spaced Practice

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Mass Practice

Which of the following is a key concept in understanding human memory according to Unit 7 of AP Psychology?

• Encoding

• Transduction

• Sensation

• Perception

What is the term for the mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory information?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Encoding

• Retrieval

In the context of memory, what does the term 'retrieval' refer to?

• Storing information over time

• Bringing stored information to mind

• Transforming sensory input into neural signals

• Organizing information into categories

Which of the following best describes the 'serial position effect'?

• The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items

• The ability to remember information without conscious effort

• The process of grouping similar items together

• The influence of prior knowledge on memory recall

What is the 'misinformation effect' in memory studies?

• The tendency to forget information over time

• The distortion of memory by misleading information

• The ability to remember information without conscious effort

• The process of encoding sensory input into memory

Which psychologist is most closely associated with the study of false memories?

• Sigmund Freud

• Elizabeth Loftus

• B.F. Skinner

• Jean Piaget

What is the term for a vivid and detailed memory of an emotionally significant event?

• Flashbulb memory

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

• Procedural memory