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AP Psychology Memory

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following has limited storage capacity?
a)
Short Term Memory
b)
Long Term Memory
c)
Sensory Memory
2.
Which of the following is not related to forgetting?
a)
Retroactive interference
b)
Repression
c)
Decay
d)
Long term potentiation
3.

Which of the following is not a part of working memory?

a)

Phonological Loop

b)

Visual-Spatial Sketchpad

c)

Central Executive

d)

Hippocampus

4.
Which of the following memories happen with conscious awareness?
a)
Implicit Memories
b)
Episodic Memories
c)
Procedural Memories
d)
Repressive Memories
5.
Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?
a)
Sensory Memory
b)
Short Term Memory
c)
Working Memory
d)
Long Term Memory
6.
If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...
a)
Repressive Memories
b)
Proactive Interference
c)
Retroactive Interference
d)
Memory Decay
7.

Which of the following is not a method to encode information?

a)

Chunking

b)

Maintenance Rehearsal

c)

Elaborative Rehearsal

d)

Selective Attention

8.
What is the worst way to form long term memories?
a)
Having a strong emotional experience to a memory.
b)
Spaced Practice
c)
Elaborative Rehearsal
d)
Mass Practice
9.
Elizabeth Loftus did work related to 
a)
accurate memories being found during hypnosis
b)
Constructive memory processing
c)
Finding memory traces or engrams.
d)
Holding 7 bits of information in STM (+ or - 2)
10.
According to _________ theory, you are likely to form memories that mirror your emotional state.
a)
Mood congruent
b)

flashbulb memory

c)
episodic memory
d)
priming
11.

According to _________ theory, you not consciously aware of how external stimuli can shape the way you react to another stimulus.

a)
Constructive memory
b)
repressive memory
c)
episodic memory
d)
priming
12.
If distractors are strong, Recognition is superior to recall.
a)
True
b)
False
13.

Which of the following is not true of Ebbinghaus' Curve of forgetting?

a)

The x axis is the passage of time.

b)

Severe memory decay occurs in the first few hours.

c)

People retain 50% of information after 30 days.

d)

The y axis is the amount of information retained.

14.
Which brain part is responsible for facilitating explicit memories?
a)
brain stem
b)
cerebellum
c)
amygdala
d)
hippocampus
15.

Which of the following is not a general category for implicit memories?

a)

prospective memories

b)

classical conditioned memories

c)

priming

d)

procedural memories.

16.

Which of the following is not on the multi-store model of forming a LTM?

a)

automatic encoding

b)

effortful encoding

c)

Selective Attention

d)

Episodic buffer

17.

Memorizing Lincoln Park's "Numb" and then listening to their song "What I've Done" causes you to forget some lyrics from "Numb."

a)

Encoding

b)

Proactive Interference

c)

Retroactive Interference

d)

Source Amnesia

18.

Learning the the United States stopped importing all oil and energy from Russia but not be able to identify where you learned this information is an example of

a)

retrograde amnesia

b)

Anterograde amnesia

c)

Source amnesia

d)

constructed memory processing

19.

Which of the following best describes proactive interference?

a)

Old information disrupts recall of new information

b)

New information disrupts recall of old information

c)

Forgetting due to lack of rehearsal

d)

Memories formed without conscious awareness

20.

Which process is most involved when you remember the first items in a long list?

a)

Primacy effect

b)

Chunking

c)

Source amnesia

d)

Recency effect

21.

Which of the following is NOT a function of the central executive in working memory?

a)

Switching between tasks

b)

Storing long-term memories

c)

Directing attention

d)

Coordinating information from different sources