AP Psychology Recall and Recognition

•According to the serial position effect, you will remember more:

• A. items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.

• B. items in the middle of a list, than at the beginning and end.

• C. vocabulary words if you process them visually.

• D. vocabulary words if you process them acoustically.

The reason most North Americans cannot accurately describe the head of a penny is due to:

• A. storage decay

• B. encoding failure

• C. motivated forgetting

• D. retrieval failure

During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:

• A. the spacing effect

• B. proactive interference

• C. retroactive interference

• D. state-dependent memory

•You are used to driving a car with a standard shift (stick shift). Today you are driving a friend’s car that has an automatic transmission. As you drive, you keep trying to shift gears, but there is no shift. This tendency is most likely due to:

• A. retroactive interference

• B. proactive interference

• C. motivated forgetting

• D. encoding failure

Lucy's inability to create new memories after her car accident is an example of...

• retrograde amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• source-monitoring error

• reality monitoring

Negative recall primed by distressing emotions most clearly illustrates

• the misinformation effect.

• proactive interference

• repression

• mood-congruent memory

Learning the combo a new locker, you are unable to remember the combo for your old lock.

• retroactive

• proactive

• encoding failure

• source amnesia

Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially

• steady and subsequently speeds up.

• rapid and subsequently slows down.

• slow and subsequently stays slow

• slow and subsequently speeds up

Fear tells about a car crash and says the cars “smashed” instead of “hit” what effect is this?

• serial position effect

• next-in-line effect

• spacing effect

• misinformation effect

_________ refers to the fading of memory traces from short-­term memory.

• Encoding failure

• Decay

• Disuse

• Decoding failure