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Memory // AP Psychology

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  1. James is memorizing a list of tools to remember when he heads to home depot: screwdriver, hammer, nail, pitchfork, drill, rotor, wrench, wedge, and screws. If the law of primacy holds and he forgets the list, which of the following is Doug most likely to remember when he gets to the store?
  2. Judith is presented with a list of 50 animals. When asked to recall this list, she remembers more animals from the beginning than from the end of the list. This phenomenon demonstrates which of the following types of effect?
  3. Memory starts with what stage according to the information-processing view of memory?
  4. Buster McGee suffered a head injury in a wild bus accident in Zimbabwe. He now has clear memories of events that occurred before the accident, but he has great difficulty remembering any of the experiences he has had since the accident. John's symptoms are descriptive of
  5. The tendency for prior learning to inhibit recall of later learning is called
  6. The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as
  7. Psychologists have concluded that long-term memories fall into the following two categories:
  8. Essay questions tend to be more difficult than multiple choice because with an essay question,
  9. Students often assume that because they can answer all the study questions once, they have sufficiently prepared for a test. This mistaken attitude overlooks the importance of __________ for improving memory.
  10. According to the interference theory of forgetting,
  11. Often, memories appear to be available but not accessible, as in
  12. If you witnessed a crime and were asked to pick out the criminal from a lineup, you would be doing what kind of memory task?
  13. If you keep accidentally calling your new girlfriend your old girlfriends name, you are experiencing
  14. The reason it may be difficult to remember how many rows of stars appear on the United States flag is most likely due to
  15. To remember the five Great Lakes, you might remember the word HOMES, because each of the five letters in HOMES is the first letter of one of the Great Lakes. This strategy is known as
  16. According to Freud, the only way to be free of repressed memories is to
  17. Which part of long term memory stores autobiographical memory?
  18. Extreme photographic memory is known as
  19. Bonnie is trying to remember what grocery items she needs from the stores. She repeats the words. Eggs, cookies, bread, tortillas, and pretzels over and over again in her mind. Bonnie is utilizing which memory technique?
  20. When you try to relate psychological terms you are learning in class to personal examples from your life. You are using
  21. Long-term memory is thought to have
  22. Ned can no longer form any new memories after a car accident. He likely suffers from:
  23. If you learn material for your political science course in a classroom, and then are asked to take an exam for that course in a large lecture hall on the other side of campus, your scores may not be as high as you would like. What may explain this phenomena?
  24. Retrograde amnesia involves ________ and is induced by ________.
  25. Which of the following are the three essential tasks of memory?
  26. Mnemonics are methods for
  27. Brian cannot remember the name of the flower he just planted even though he knows he is familiar with it's name, his lack of remembering demonstrates the _________
  28. Jamal needs to remember his social security number but there are too many numbers for him to hold it in his working memory. What technique would best help Jamal to remember his social security number.
  29. In proactive interference, old memories act to
  30. The three memory stages, in order of processing, are
  31. The observation that depressed people tend to favor recall of depressing memories is known memory.
  32. The sensory register for vision is called _________ memory, whereas the sensory register for hearing is called _________ memory.
  33. Because of the limited capacity of ________ it is unsafe to talk on a cell phone while driving on a freeway during rush-hour.
  34. A basic assumption underlying short-term memory is that it is
  35. Your ability to successfully complete routine tasks like returning library books on time, writing and submitting your college essays before the deadline, etc. most clearly relate to