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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH CH.8 EXAM
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Question 1: Semantic encoding is to visual encoding as ________ is to ________.
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meaning; imagery Question 2: Compared to formerly depressed people, those who are currently depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive. This best illustrates:
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mood-congruent memory.
Question 3: Storage is to encoding as ________ is to ________.
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retention; acquisition Question 4: Repression involves a failure in:
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retrieval.
Question 5: Semantic encoding refers to the processing of
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meanings Question 6: Peterson and Peterson asked subjects to count aloud backward immediately after they were presented with three letters to remember. This was designed to prevent
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rehearsal.Question 7: Most people misrecall the sentence, " the angry rioter threw the rock at the window " as "the angry rioter threw the rock through the window." Importance of
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Semantic encoding Question 8: An attorney's use of misleading questions may distort a court witnesss's recall of a previously observed crime
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The misinformation effect Question 9: The three most basic steps involved in human memory are:
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encoding, storage, and retrieval Question 10: Craik and Tulving experimentally demonstrated that people effectively remember seeing a specific word after they decide whether that word fits into an incomplete sentence. This research
highlighted the effectiveness of:
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semantic encoding.Question 11: The three-stage processing model suggests that information from long-term memory can be ____ into ____ memory.
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retrieved; short-term
Question 12: Which pioneering researcher made extensive use of nonsense syllables in the study of human memory?
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Ebbinghaus Question 13: Our immediate short-term memory for new material is limited to roughly units of information.
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7 Question 14: Where are explicit memories of newly learned verbal information and visual designs stored?
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Verbal information is stored in the left hippocampus and visual designs are stored in the right hippocampus.Question 15: Dario Donatelli could recall more than 70 sequentially presented digits by using the technique of
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chunking.Question 16: By exposing research participants to three rows of three letters each for only a fraction of a second, Sperling demonstrated that people have memory.
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iconic
Question 17: Retroactive interference refers to
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Disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of previously learned material.Question 18: Proactive and retroactive interference contribute most strongly to be:
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Serial position effect
Question 19: Tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than massed
study is known as:
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The spacing effect Question 20: After Maya gave her friend the password to a protected Web site, the friend was able to remember it only long enough to type it into the password box. In this instance, the password was clearly stored in her ________ memory
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short-term Question 21: Why Ebbinghaus found the task of learning new lists of nonsense syllables increasingly difficault as his research career progressed?
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Proactive interference Question 22: After Jackie was shown the letters "g, c, k, p, and d" she recalled them as "g, c, j, t, and d." Her recall errors suggest that the letters had been encoded
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acoustically Question 23: Which type of memory has an essentially unlimited storage capacity?
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long-term memory Question 24: The serial position effect best illustrates the importance of :
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Rehearsal Question 25: In an effort to remember how to spell "rhinoceros," Sheryl writes the word 30 times. She is
using a technique known as:
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rehearsal
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