Wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

AP Psychology Review - Memory

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

is the ability to retain information over time

a)

memory

b)

chunking

c)

dancing

d)

reherarsing

2.

Where are memories stored in the brain? choose 2 answers

a)

teeth

b)

sensory memory

c)

amygdala

d)

hippocampus

3.

This is the first process of placing information in the memory

a)

incoming information

b)

encoding

c)

short-term memory

d)

long-term memory

4.

the process of placing encoded information into permanent mental state is called

a)

storage

b)

sensory memory

c)

short-term memory

d)

long-term memory

5.

The process of getting information from the Short-term memory to the Long term memory is

a)

primacy effect

b)

visual memory

c)

sensory memory

d)

retrieval

6.

visual and auditory memory are part of:

a)

long-term memory

b)

working memory

c)

sensory memory

d)

recency

7.

Maintains the sounds that we heard for about 3-4 seconds

a)

echoic memory

b)

iconic memory

c)

sensory memory

d)

primacy

8.

is also known as working memory

a)

sensory memory

b)

primacy

c)

short-term memory

d)

long-term memory

9.

Which type of memory has unlimited capacity to remember things your whole life

a)

sensory memory

b)

primacy

c)

long-term memory

d)

auditory memory

10.

STM (short term memory) has a capacity of

a)

infinite information

b)

5- 9 items

c)

30 seconds

d)

3-4 seconds

11.

LTM (long term memory) can be broadly divided into two categories

a)

Semantic and declarative

b)

Implicit and procedural

c)

Implicit and explicit

d)

explicit and declarative

12.

The memory that is either biographical or prospective (remembering things you have on your "to-do"list) is

a)

semantic

b)

episodic

c)

implicit

d)

explicit

13.

An essential difference between semantic and episodic memories is that

a)

Semantic memories are the same for everyone; episodic are personal experiences

b)

Semantic memories are personal experiences; episodic are the same for everyone

c)

You can verbalise a semantic memory but it is harder to put an episodic memory into words

d)

You can verbalise an episodic memory but it is harder to put a semantic memory into words

14.

blockage of memory by previous or subsequent memories or loss of a retrieval cue

a)

confabulation

b)

decay

c)

interference

d)

episodic

15.

The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember

a)

encoding

b)

recognition

c)

chunking

d)

episodic

16.

Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material

a)

storage

b)

retrieval

c)

recall

d)

encoding

17.

Someone is playing a song on a piano that you have heard before. You are able to identify this song as one you have heard because of which process?

a)

recognition

b)

reconstruction

c)

recaall

d)

confabulation

18.

Whe a person subconscously blocks memories of a frightening experience, this kind of forgetting is called

a)

indexing.

b)

decay.

c)

amnesia.

d)

repression.

19.

If you recite the rhyme "Thirty days has September, April, June, and November" to remember the number of days in each month, you are using a(n)

a)

mental picture.

b)

mnemonic device.

c)

schema.

d)

mental picture.

20.

After suffering an accident and landing in the hospital, Hiroko has no memory of her hospital stay, which suggest she developed _____ amnesia.

a)

Retroactive

b)

Retrograde

c)

Proactive

d)

Anterograde

21.

Memory can be defined as the process of

a)

encoding, storing and retrieving information.

b)

storing of information

c)

processing of information

d)

none of the above

22.
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
23.
Which of the following has a tendency to be the hardest way to learn something?
a)
When positive transfer occurs.
b)
Using shallow processing.
c)
Using elaborative rehearsal
d)
Using deep processing.
24.

Episodic memory is

a)

capacity to remember to do something at a given time or place

b)

memory that cannot be retrieved

c)

generic knowledge of the world

d)

capacity to recollect specific incidents from the past

25.

Which one is NOT the example of nondeclarative (implicit) memory?

a)

Priming

b)

Simple classical conditioning

c)

Skills and Habits

d)

Facts

26.

Taking brief photographic images for your memory

a)

Echoic Memory

b)

Eidetic Memory

c)

Iconic Memory

27.
Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called
a)
repressed memories.
b)
sensory memories
c)
mood-congruent memories
d)
flashbulb memories
28.
According to _________ theory, you are likely to form memories that mirror your emotional state.
a)
Mood congruent
b)
Mood dependent
c)
episodic memory
d)
priming
29.

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

30.

'The process by which information is held in STM by repeating over and over again.' What is being described here?

a)

Retrieval

b)

Consolidation

c)

Elaborative rehearsal

d)

Maintenance rehearsal

31.

Depending on the person, this memories capacity is 5-9 items and lasts about 5-20 seconds

a)

Sensory memory

b)

Long term memory

c)

Implicit memory

d)

Working memory

32.

Given a list of names people usually remember the first part of the list and the last part of the list more and are more prone to forget the names in the middle due to:

a)

Serial position effect

b)

Poor memory

c)

Cereal position effect

d)

Priming position effect

33.

I have many passwords and sometimes forget my password. This could be due to what kind of interference?

a)

Retrograde interference

b)

Proactive interference

c)

Blindside interference

d)

Missing link interference

34.

This model of memory says that memory exists in three stages: Encoding, storage, and retrieval.

a)

Levels-of-Processing Model

b)

Parallel Distributed Processing Model

c)

Information Processing Model

d)

Connectionism

e)

Relationism

35.

Which type of amnesia keeps us from remembering information from the first 2-3 years of our lives?

a)

Anterograde

b)

Retrograde

c)

Infantile

d)

Iconic

e)

Echoic

36.

The serial position effect refers to which of the following? Select both that apply.

a)

Primary effect

b)

Last effects

c)

Recency effect

d)

LTM