Unit 7 AP psych test Review Questions
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levels of processing - ✔✔In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of
words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks
group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz. During a recall test,
participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A.
Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in
L - ✔✔Hermann Ebbinghaus tested his memory using combinations of three-letter
nonsense syllables. Which of the following graphs best represents his findings about the
relationship between forgetting and time?
episodic memory - ✔✔A childhood friend asked Jeffrey whether he remembered where
they went on summer vacation when they were eight years old. Jeffrey's ability to recall
correctly will rely on which of the following?
Steven studies a list of word pairs and is later given the first word of each pair and asked
to recall the second word in the pair. - ✔✔which of the following scenarios involves using
cued recall?
Procedural - ✔✔Matthew learned to play the violin at a very early age. He is able to play
several songs from memory, but he does not remember learning to play them. Matthew's
ability to play the violin depends on which of the following types of memory?
in the middle of the list - ✔✔When a list of words is learned in order, the words most
likely to be forgotten are those that are
the hypothetical "most typical" instance of a category - ✔✔A prototype is best defined as
Carl tries to remember the name of his first boss, but he cannot because he keeps
thinking of the name of his current boss. - ✔✔Which of the following scenarios is an
example of retroactive interference?
priming - ✔✔A researcher asks participants to identify red shapes presented on a video
screen. Following this, novel objects of various colors are depicted on the screen.
, Participants correctly identify red objects more quickly than objects of a different color.
The result illustrates
have more difficulty learning to produce phonemes that do not exist in his native language
- ✔✔A 40-year-old man and his 7-year-old son move to a country where they have to learn
a new language. Compared with his son, the 40-year-old man will
She never encoded the names into long-term memory - ✔✔Mary is introduced to three
new people at a party. Later, however, she cannot remember the names of any of her new
acquaintances, even though she remembers what she ate, her old friends who were there,
and the address of the host. What may account for Mary's inability to remember these
individuals' names?
priming - ✔✔In the morning, Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in
his psychology class, he viewed the image above and readily identified it as a rabbit
instead of a duck. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?
the availability heuristic - ✔✔Matthew's parents are physicists, and so are the parents of
several of his best friends. Therefore, Matthew believes that many people are employed
as physicists. Matthew's reasoning is based on
the serial position effect - ✔✔A person assembling a tool one week after reading the
instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle
ones. This best illustrates which of the following?
Elaborative encoding, because engaging in deeper processing improves memory. - ✔✔When
Gustavo goes through lists of inventory items and thinks about whether each one is a fruit
or not, he remembers more of the items on those lists later than when he goes through
lists of inventory items and does not think about what each item is. Which of the following
concepts best explains Gustavo's performance?
retroactive interference - ✔✔A teacher has to learn 170 new student names every year
and finds it difficult to remember the names of former students. The teacher's memory
problem most likelv results from
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levels of processing - ✔✔In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of
words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks
group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz. During a recall test,
participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A.
Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in
L - ✔✔Hermann Ebbinghaus tested his memory using combinations of three-letter
nonsense syllables. Which of the following graphs best represents his findings about the
relationship between forgetting and time?
episodic memory - ✔✔A childhood friend asked Jeffrey whether he remembered where
they went on summer vacation when they were eight years old. Jeffrey's ability to recall
correctly will rely on which of the following?
Steven studies a list of word pairs and is later given the first word of each pair and asked
to recall the second word in the pair. - ✔✔which of the following scenarios involves using
cued recall?
Procedural - ✔✔Matthew learned to play the violin at a very early age. He is able to play
several songs from memory, but he does not remember learning to play them. Matthew's
ability to play the violin depends on which of the following types of memory?
in the middle of the list - ✔✔When a list of words is learned in order, the words most
likely to be forgotten are those that are
the hypothetical "most typical" instance of a category - ✔✔A prototype is best defined as
Carl tries to remember the name of his first boss, but he cannot because he keeps
thinking of the name of his current boss. - ✔✔Which of the following scenarios is an
example of retroactive interference?
priming - ✔✔A researcher asks participants to identify red shapes presented on a video
screen. Following this, novel objects of various colors are depicted on the screen.
, Participants correctly identify red objects more quickly than objects of a different color.
The result illustrates
have more difficulty learning to produce phonemes that do not exist in his native language
- ✔✔A 40-year-old man and his 7-year-old son move to a country where they have to learn
a new language. Compared with his son, the 40-year-old man will
She never encoded the names into long-term memory - ✔✔Mary is introduced to three
new people at a party. Later, however, she cannot remember the names of any of her new
acquaintances, even though she remembers what she ate, her old friends who were there,
and the address of the host. What may account for Mary's inability to remember these
individuals' names?
priming - ✔✔In the morning, Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in
his psychology class, he viewed the image above and readily identified it as a rabbit
instead of a duck. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?
the availability heuristic - ✔✔Matthew's parents are physicists, and so are the parents of
several of his best friends. Therefore, Matthew believes that many people are employed
as physicists. Matthew's reasoning is based on
the serial position effect - ✔✔A person assembling a tool one week after reading the
instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle
ones. This best illustrates which of the following?
Elaborative encoding, because engaging in deeper processing improves memory. - ✔✔When
Gustavo goes through lists of inventory items and thinks about whether each one is a fruit
or not, he remembers more of the items on those lists later than when he goes through
lists of inventory items and does not think about what each item is. Which of the following
concepts best explains Gustavo's performance?
retroactive interference - ✔✔A teacher has to learn 170 new student names every year
and finds it difficult to remember the names of former students. The teacher's memory
problem most likelv results from
