Unit 7: AP Psych Practice Questions & Correct
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Julia is asked to remember the first person to offer her a Diet Coke when she was 5. What measure of
retention will Julia have to use to answer this question? - Correct Answer Recall.
Which way to turn the car key to start the engine is what kind of memory? - Correct Answer Implicit
memory.
What is the capacity of your short term memory? - Correct Answer Close to one minute.
What is the capacity of your working memory? - Correct Answer 1 to several days.
What is the capacity of your sensory memory? - Correct Answer Fleeting.
Thinking about how words relate to your own life is an example of what? - Correct Answer Semantic
encoding.
George Miller proposed that short term memory can retain about how many bits of information? -
Correct Answer About 7.
One is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree, etc. is an example of what? - Correct Answer Mnemonic
specifically a peg word system.
Explicit memories form through what? - Correct Answer Effortful processing. (Declarative).
Automatic processing produces what? - Correct Answer Implicit memories. (Nondeclarative).
What information do we automatically process? - Correct Answer Skills, classically conditioned
associations, space, time, and frequency.
, In what level of processing do we encode words based on their structure or appearance? - Correct
Answer Shallow processing.
Encoding words based on their meaning is what level of processing? - Correct Answer Deep processing.
Where are space, time, and frequency processed in the brain? - Correct Answer Cerebellum and basil
ganglia.
Where are facts and general knowledge processed in the brain? - Correct Answer Hippocampus and
frontal lobes.
Where would your memory of last year's family holiday be processed in? - Correct Answer
Hippocampus and frontal lobes.
Simon can't remember how to ride a bike. What part of the brain would a skill like this be processed in? -
Correct Answer Cerebellum and basil ganglia.
What part of the brain is classical conditioning processed in? - Correct Answer Cerebellum and basil
ganglia.
A fill in the blank test would test what? - Correct Answer Recall.
A multiple choice test tests what? - Correct Answer Recognition.
Brian is studying for a final exam. He finds that relearning the material is easier than when he initially
learned it. What is this an example of? - Correct Answer Relearning.
William James called this process "the wakening of associations". - Correct Answer Priming.
Julia rolls of her bed to get her third piece of pie. She walks into her kitchen and forgets what she went in
there for. She trudges back to her room and lays back down on her bed. Suddenly, she realizes that she
wanted pie. What is this an example of? - Correct Answer Context dependent memory.
Solutions |100% Solved|
Julia is asked to remember the first person to offer her a Diet Coke when she was 5. What measure of
retention will Julia have to use to answer this question? - Correct Answer Recall.
Which way to turn the car key to start the engine is what kind of memory? - Correct Answer Implicit
memory.
What is the capacity of your short term memory? - Correct Answer Close to one minute.
What is the capacity of your working memory? - Correct Answer 1 to several days.
What is the capacity of your sensory memory? - Correct Answer Fleeting.
Thinking about how words relate to your own life is an example of what? - Correct Answer Semantic
encoding.
George Miller proposed that short term memory can retain about how many bits of information? -
Correct Answer About 7.
One is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree, etc. is an example of what? - Correct Answer Mnemonic
specifically a peg word system.
Explicit memories form through what? - Correct Answer Effortful processing. (Declarative).
Automatic processing produces what? - Correct Answer Implicit memories. (Nondeclarative).
What information do we automatically process? - Correct Answer Skills, classically conditioned
associations, space, time, and frequency.
, In what level of processing do we encode words based on their structure or appearance? - Correct
Answer Shallow processing.
Encoding words based on their meaning is what level of processing? - Correct Answer Deep processing.
Where are space, time, and frequency processed in the brain? - Correct Answer Cerebellum and basil
ganglia.
Where are facts and general knowledge processed in the brain? - Correct Answer Hippocampus and
frontal lobes.
Where would your memory of last year's family holiday be processed in? - Correct Answer
Hippocampus and frontal lobes.
Simon can't remember how to ride a bike. What part of the brain would a skill like this be processed in? -
Correct Answer Cerebellum and basil ganglia.
What part of the brain is classical conditioning processed in? - Correct Answer Cerebellum and basil
ganglia.
A fill in the blank test would test what? - Correct Answer Recall.
A multiple choice test tests what? - Correct Answer Recognition.
Brian is studying for a final exam. He finds that relearning the material is easier than when he initially
learned it. What is this an example of? - Correct Answer Relearning.
William James called this process "the wakening of associations". - Correct Answer Priming.
Julia rolls of her bed to get her third piece of pie. She walks into her kitchen and forgets what she went in
there for. She trudges back to her room and lays back down on her bed. Suddenly, she realizes that she
wanted pie. What is this an example of? - Correct Answer Context dependent memory.
