AP Psych Unit 4 FA Dummy 5, 2025-26

A case study shows a patient unable to recall distressing memories during therapy, though others remember them clearly. This supports which concept?

• Mood-congruent recall

• Semantic processing

• Repression

• Interference theory

A therapist suggests a client’s inability to recall a painful memory is the result of unconscious defense. This explanation relies on:

• Misinformation effect

• Retrograde amnesia

• Repression

• Long-term potentiation

The misinformation effect occurs when:

• The order of learning distorts memory

• False information distorts memory of an actual event

• Emotional states block memory retrieval

• Memories are recalled in an incorrect sequence

A person's memory of an event becomes distorted after exposure to misleading post-event details. This is called the:

• Source amnesia

• Retroactive interference

• Misinformation effect

• Context shift error

After witnessing a car accident, Jim later read an article describing the crash differently. His memory of the event changed. This best illustrates:

• Priming

• Proactive interference

• Misinformation effect

• Context-dependent retrieval

A study found that participants who viewed misleading images of an event later gave distorted descriptions. This supports:

• Semantic network theory

• Misinformation effect

• Flashbulb encoding

• Mood-congruent bias

A teacher warns students not to rely on secondhand stories when recalling a classroom event, because of the risk of:

• Retroactive interference

• Source amnesia

• Misinformation effect

• Contextual decay

Source amnesia refers to:

• Failure to recall the time a memory was acquired

• Mislabeling a traumatic memory before a memory was acquired.

• Blending emotional and factual memories

• Forgetting memories that are too familiar

When someone remembers a fact but cannot recall where or when they learned it, they are experiencing:

• Memory decay

• Encoding failure

• Source amnesia

• Retrieval interference

Colin insists he came up with a business idea, not realizing he overheard it in a podcast. This best illustrates:

• Repression

• Source amnesia

• Mood-dependent memory

• Serial position error