PSYC 255 QUIZ 7 2026 PRACTICE TEST SHEET
FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
GUARANTEED PASS
◉ What are serial position effects?
Answer: The tendency to remember the first and last items in a list
significantly better than items in the middle.
◉ What is the primacy effect?
Answer: Enhanced memory for words presented at the beginning of
a list.
◉ What is the recency effect?
Answer: Enhanced memory for words presented at the end of a list.
◉ What are the types of long-term memory?
Answer: Declarative (semantic and episodic) and procedural
memory.
◉ What is declarative memory?
Answer: Conscious, intentional recollection of factual
information/events.
,◉ What is procedural memory?
Answer: Implicit memory responsible for knowing how to perform
tasks, habits, and motor skills automatically.
◉ What is semantic memory?
Answer: Memory about general knowledge.
◉ What is episodic memory?
Answer: Memory about personal experiences.
◉ What evidence suggests semantic and episodic memory are
distinct?
Answer: Patient K.C. could recall facts but not past experiences,
while Patient L.P. could recall past experiences but not many facts.
◉ What is reconsolidation?
Answer: The process that makes a reactivated memory fragile and
can lead to memory errors.
◉ What did Hupbach et al. (2007) study demonstrate?
Answer: Participants integrated items from a second list into their
recall of a first list, showing memory can be changed.
, ◉ What does it mean that memory is (re)constructive?
Answer: Memory is not a passive process; it is actively
reconstructed, which can lead to errors.
◉ What is proactive interference?
Answer: When earlier information interferes with new learning.
◉ What is retroactive interference?
Answer: When more recent information interferes with earlier
learning.
◉ What is the Fan Effect?
Answer: Learning more facts about an individual increases the
response time to determine if those facts are true.
◉ What are schemas?
Answer: Representational structures involved in understanding,
inference, and memory.
◉ What are scripts?
Answer: Schemas for events.
FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
GUARANTEED PASS
◉ What are serial position effects?
Answer: The tendency to remember the first and last items in a list
significantly better than items in the middle.
◉ What is the primacy effect?
Answer: Enhanced memory for words presented at the beginning of
a list.
◉ What is the recency effect?
Answer: Enhanced memory for words presented at the end of a list.
◉ What are the types of long-term memory?
Answer: Declarative (semantic and episodic) and procedural
memory.
◉ What is declarative memory?
Answer: Conscious, intentional recollection of factual
information/events.
,◉ What is procedural memory?
Answer: Implicit memory responsible for knowing how to perform
tasks, habits, and motor skills automatically.
◉ What is semantic memory?
Answer: Memory about general knowledge.
◉ What is episodic memory?
Answer: Memory about personal experiences.
◉ What evidence suggests semantic and episodic memory are
distinct?
Answer: Patient K.C. could recall facts but not past experiences,
while Patient L.P. could recall past experiences but not many facts.
◉ What is reconsolidation?
Answer: The process that makes a reactivated memory fragile and
can lead to memory errors.
◉ What did Hupbach et al. (2007) study demonstrate?
Answer: Participants integrated items from a second list into their
recall of a first list, showing memory can be changed.
, ◉ What does it mean that memory is (re)constructive?
Answer: Memory is not a passive process; it is actively
reconstructed, which can lead to errors.
◉ What is proactive interference?
Answer: When earlier information interferes with new learning.
◉ What is retroactive interference?
Answer: When more recent information interferes with earlier
learning.
◉ What is the Fan Effect?
Answer: Learning more facts about an individual increases the
response time to determine if those facts are true.
◉ What are schemas?
Answer: Representational structures involved in understanding,
inference, and memory.
◉ What are scripts?
Answer: Schemas for events.
