FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH

COGNITION EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -45 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Mood-Congruent/State-Dependent Memory

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the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our mood

Question 2: Retrieval

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the process of getting information out of memory storage

Question 3: Testing Effect

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enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading information

Question 4: Episodic Memory

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explicit memory of personally experienced events

Question 5: Repression

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the basic defense mechanism from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

Question 6: Mnemonics

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memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

Question 7: Reconsolidation

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a process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are altered before being restored

Question 8: Encoding

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the process of getting information into the memory system

Question 9: Semantic Memory

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explicit memory of facts or general knowledge

Question 10: Explicit/Declarative Memory

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retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare

Question 11: Retroactive Interference

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the backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of past information

Question 12: Retrieval-Induced Forgetting

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occurs when we have many memories associated with a cue but selectively rehearse only one or two of these memories

Question 13: Retrograde Amnesia

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an inability to retrieve information from one's past

Question 14: Chunking

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organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically

Question 15: Priming

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the activation, often unconscious, of particular associations in memory

Question 16: Shallow Processing

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encoding on a basic level, based on the structure or appearance of words

Question 17: Recall

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a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier without any cues, as on a fill in the blank test

Question 18: Spacing Effect

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the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention is achieved through massed study or practice

Question 19: Working Memory

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a newer understanding of short-term memory that adds conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual information, and of information retrieved from long term memory

Question 20: Long-Term Potentiation

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an increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation; a neural basis for learning and memory

Question 21: Misinformation Effect

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occurs when misleading information has distorted one's memory of an event

Question 22: Proactive Interference

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that forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information

Question 23: Parallel Processing

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processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously, the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions

Question 24: Recency Effect

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the enhanced ability to recall items from the end of a list

Question 25: Recognition

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a measure of memory in which the person identifies items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test

Question 26: Iconic Memory

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a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, a picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second

Question 27: Relearning

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a measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again

Question 28: Storage

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the process of retaining information over time