FREE AP Psychology Memory Exam Question and Answers

Question 1

Which of the following rehearsing techniques would help you remember someone's name who you just met?

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Elaborative rehearsal

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Proactive rehearsal

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Retroactive rehearsal

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Intentional rehearsal

Question 2

Memory for automatic tasks, like riding a bike and writing, is referred to as:

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Procedural memory

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Repressed memory

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Semantic memory

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Declarative memory

Question 3

As a result of a brain injury brought on by a stroke or an accident, a person may experience retrograde amnesia, in which case they become forgetful about the:

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Events immediately before the injury

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Events immediately after the injury

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Newly formed declarative memories

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Procedural memories

Question 4

What is the name for memory loss that only happens with the passage of time?

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Decay

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Encoding failure

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Interference

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Amnesia

Question 5

Anterograde amnesia is associated with what area of brain damage or removal?

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Hippocampus

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Corpus callosum

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Hypothalamus

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Cerebellum

Question 6

The process through which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied, and assimilated into memory is known as:

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Encoding

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Retrieval

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Appraisal

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Rehearsal

Question 7

Which of the subsequent is an illustration of prospective memory?

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Remembering to buy your sister a birthday present next week

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Remembering how to ride a bike

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Remembering the capital of Georgia

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Remembering how to play checkers