WorksheetsAP Psychology Reading Quiz - Module 33 2025
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which type of amnesia involves an inability to form new memories after an injury or illness?
Retrograde amnesia
Proactive interference
Anterograde amnesia
Source amnesia
Retrograde amnesia is best defined as
The inability to recall information learned after an injury
The inability to retrieve information from one’s past
Confusion about the source of information
Forgetting due to lack of rehearsal
Forgetting can occur during which stages of memory?
Encoding only
Storage only
Retrieval only
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
Encoding failure occurs because
Memories fade over time
Memories are replaced by new information
Information was never processed into memory
Retrieval cues are missing
Hermann Ebbinghaus is best known for his research on
Repressed memories
The misinformation effect
The forgetting curve
Source amnesia
Storage decay refers to
Failure to pay attention to information
Loss of information over time due to lack of rehearsal
Confusion between similar memories
Reconstructing memories inaccurately
Retrieval failure suggests that forgetting happens because
Memories are erased
Memories were never stored
Memories cannot be accessed at the moment
Memories were emotionally upsetting
Proactive interference occurs when
New learning disrupts old memories
Old learning disrupts new memories
Trauma blocks memory formation
Information is never encoded
Retroactive interference occurs when
Old memories block new information
New learning disrupts recall of old information
Memories decay naturally over time
Sleep improves recall
Which example best illustrates proactive interference?
Forgetting childhood memories
Remembering only recent test material
Typing an old password instead of a new one
Imagining an event that never happened
Research shows that information learned before sleep
Is forgotten more quickly
Suffers more interference
Suffers less retroactive interference
Cannot be stored in long-term memory
Motivated forgetting is most closely associated with
Elizabeth Loftus
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Sigmund Freud
Stephen Ceci
Repression refers to
Conscious forgetting of trivial information
The decay of memory traces
Blocking anxiety-provoking memories from consciousness
Confusion between similar memories
Research on trauma memories suggests that traumatic events
Are usually repressed
Lead to vivid and persistent memories
Are easily forgotten
Cannot be recalled accurately
Reconsolidation occurs when memories are
Permanently erased
Stored for the first time
Retrieved and potentially altered before being stored again
Forgotten due to decay
The misinformation effect occurs when
People forget events entirely
Misleading information distorts memory
Memories fade naturally over time
People confuse similar memories
Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated the misinformation effect by showing that
Memory improves with rehearsal
Leading questions can alter recall
Sleep enhances memory accuracy
Children have perfect recall
Source amnesia involves
Forgetting due to brain injury
Confusing old and new memories
Forgetting how or where information was learned
Inability to retrieve memories
Déjà vu may be explained by
Encoding failure
Storage decay
Source amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Research on children’s eyewitness testimony suggests that children
Always provide accurate accounts
Are immune to suggestion
Can be influenced by misleading questions
Cannot recall events accurately
