WorksheetsAP Psychology Review - Memory
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 21mins
is the ability to retain information over time
memory
chunking
dancing
reherarsing
Where are memories stored in the brain? choose 2 answers
teeth
sensory memory
amygdala
hippocampus
This is the first process of placing information in the memory
incoming information
encoding
short-term memory
long-term memory
the process of placing encoded information into permanent mental state is called
storage
sensory memory
short-term memory
long-term memory
The process of getting information from the Short-term memory to the Long term memory is
primacy effect
visual memory
sensory memory
retrieval
visual and auditory memory are part of:
long-term memory
working memory
sensory memory
recency
Maintains the sounds that we heard for about 3-4 seconds
echoic memory
iconic memory
sensory memory
primacy
is also known as working memory
sensory memory
primacy
short-term memory
long-term memory
Which type of memory has unlimited capacity to remember things your whole life
sensory memory
primacy
long-term memory
auditory memory
STM (short term memory) has a capacity of
infinite information
5- 9 items
30 seconds
3-4 seconds
LTM (long term memory) can be broadly divided into two categories
Semantic and declarative
Implicit and procedural
Implicit and explicit
explicit and declarative
The memory that is either biographical or prospective (remembering things you have on your "to-do"list) is
semantic
episodic
implicit
explicit
An essential difference between semantic and episodic memories is that
Semantic memories are the same for everyone; episodic are personal experiences
Semantic memories are personal experiences; episodic are the same for everyone
You can verbalise a semantic memory but it is harder to put an episodic memory into words
You can verbalise an episodic memory but it is harder to put a semantic memory into words
blockage of memory by previous or subsequent memories or loss of a retrieval cue
confabulation
decay
interference
episodic
The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember
encoding
recognition
chunking
episodic
Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material
storage
retrieval
recall
encoding
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?
recognition
reconstruction
recaall
confabulation
Whe a person subconscously blocks memories of a frightening experience, this kind of forgetting is called
indexing.
decay.
amnesia.
repression.
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)
mental picture.
mnemonic device.
schema.
mental picture.
After suffering an accident and landing in the hospital, Hiroko has no memory of her hospital stay, which suggest she developed _____ amnesia.
Retroactive
Retrograde
Proactive
Anterograde
Memory can be defined as the process of
encoding, storing and retrieving information.
storing of information
processing of information
none of the above
Episodic memory is
capacity to remember to do something at a given time or place
memory that cannot be retrieved
generic knowledge of the world
capacity to recollect specific incidents from the past
Which one is NOT the example of nondeclarative (implicit) memory?
Priming
Simple classical conditioning
Skills and Habits
Facts
Taking brief photographic images for your memory
Echoic Memory
Eidetic Memory
Iconic Memory
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
retrograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Source amnesia
constructed memory processing
'The process by which information is held in STM by repeating over and over again.' What is being described here?
Retrieval
Consolidation
Elaborative rehearsal
Maintenance rehearsal
Depending on the person, this memories capacity is 5-9 items and lasts about 5-20 seconds
Sensory memory
Long term memory
Implicit memory
Working memory
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:
Serial position effect
Poor memory
Cereal position effect
Priming position effect
I have many passwords and sometimes forget my password. This could be due to what kind of interference?
Retrograde interference
Proactive interference
Blindside interference
Missing link interference
This model of memory says that memory exists in three stages: Encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Levels-of-Processing Model
Parallel Distributed Processing Model
Information Processing Model
Connectionism
Relationism
Which type of amnesia keeps us from remembering information from the first 2-3 years of our lives?
Anterograde
Retrograde
Infantile
Iconic
Echoic
The serial position effect refers to which of the following? Select both that apply.
Primary effect
Last effects
Recency effect
LTM
