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AP Psychology
Memory Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates | encoding failuer |
| The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates | effortful processing |
| At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates | the serial position effect |
| Although Jordan could not recall the exact words of a poem he had recently heard, he clearly remembered the meaning of the poem. This best illustrates the importance of | semantic encoding |
| It is easier to remember "what sobriety conceals, alcohol reveals" than to recall "what sobriety conceals, alcohol unmasks." This best illustrates the value of | acoustic coding |
| Employing the single word "HOMES" to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of | a mnemonic device |
| Which of the following is believed to be the biological basis for learning and memory? | long term potentiation |
| Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between | explicit and implicit memory |
| Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the | amygdala |
| A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of | recognition |
| The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls her teachers as warm and generous. This best illustrates that emotional states can be | retrieval cues |
| During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates | proactive interference |
| Mrs. McBride can't remember how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too embarrassing for her. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates | repression |
| Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates | source amnesia |
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