AP Psychology Exam Review 7

Question 0

The inability to remember things before a brain injury

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Retrograde amnesia

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People who are depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive illustrates..

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Mood congruent memory

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The misinformation effect refers to the…

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Incorporation of misleading information into one’s memory of an event

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Hermann Ebbingghaus’ use of nonsense syllables to study memory led to the discovery that…

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The amount remembered depends on the time spent learning

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I before E except after C…

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A heuristic

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Memory

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The persistence of learning through the storage and retrieval of information

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The disruptive effect of prior learning on recall of new information is called…

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Proactive interference

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Vivid detailed memory remembered after something triggers it illustrates…

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Source amnesia

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Which type of memory has unlimited capacity

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Long term memory

Question 9

The magical number of 7 plus or minus 2 refers to the storage capacity of…

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Short term memory

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Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events…

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Flash bulb memories

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A teacher watches boys more closely than girls because she thinks boys are naughtier illustrates..

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Confirmation bias

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Learning something but then forgetting it signifies damage to…

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Hippocampus

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Recalling last items in a list accurately

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Recency effect

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To prevent coding failure you should…

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Engage in effortful processing

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Long term potentiation

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An increase in a neuron’s firing potential

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Example of testing effect

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Repeated quizzing of information increases the chances it will be recalled

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Not thinking outside the box when solving problems

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Fixation

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When someone says Ivy League colleges, Trisha automatically thinks of Harvard, in. This case Harvard is a…

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A prototype

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People learn better in small increments spaced out rather than cramming this illustrates….

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The spacing effect

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An assumption that someone belongs to a particular group based on the way they act illustrates…

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The representativeness heuristic

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Systematically trying ever key to the lock on the door is using an…

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Algorithm

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Where are flashbulb memories stored

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Long term memory

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Heuristics

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Simple thinking strategies for solving problems quickly and efficiently

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Visually associating five items from the grocery store with mental images of a bun, a shoe, a tree, a door, and a high five illustrates...

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The peg word system

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The tendency to remember something depending on what state you were in when you learned it and the state you are in now

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State dependent memory

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Explicit memories...

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Include memories for general knowledge

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A type of motivated forgetting where unpleasant memories are blocked for development

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Repression

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Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fall asleep is most likely due to...

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Encoding failure

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Our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence is called the...

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Availability heuristic

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The inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to failure in...

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Iconic memory

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Déjà vu

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Eerie sense of having previously experienced a situation or event

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Sounds and words that are not immediately attended to cab still be recalled a couple of seconds later due to our..... Memory

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Echoic

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Semantic encoding refers to the processing of....

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Meanings

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Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention is known as...

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Automatic processing

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Metal set

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Tendency to approach a problem in a way that has been successful in the past

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Remembering images

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Iconic memory

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What items are you most likely to forget in a list

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The ones in the middle

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Confirmation bias

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A tendency to search for information that supports ones preconceptions

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Algorithm

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Methodical step by step procedure to solve problems

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The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list is called the...

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Serial position effect

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Aaron remembers his old gf's number but it's hard for him to learn the new one's. This difficulty illustrates...

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Proactive interference

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The process of getting information into memory is called...

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Encoding

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After learning a new locker combination, Martin has trouble remembering his old combination this illustrates....

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Retroactive interference

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Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially....

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Rapid and subsequently slows down

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Hearing the word rabbit may lead people to spell the word hair as hare. This best illustrates the outcome of a process known as...

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Priming

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Chunking

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The organization of information into meaningful units