AP Psych Cognition

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Where are Tanner's current thoughts being processed? Options: sensory memory, working memory, long-term memory
, echoic memory

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working memory

Front

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system is called ________ memory.

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long-term

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During her psychology test, Kelsey could not remember the meaning of the term proactive interference. Surprisingly, however, she accurately remembered that the term appeared on the fourth line of a left-hand page in her textbook. Her memory of this incidental information is best explained in terms of

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automatic processing.

Front

In an effort to remember how to spell “rhinoceros,” Samantha spells the word aloud 30 times. She is using a technique known as

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rehearsal

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Students who restudy course material at the end of a semester in order to pass the AP final exam are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates the value of

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the spacing effect

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“The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory.

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short-term

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Gerard's initial inability to recall the title of a song was most likely caused by: repression, encoding failure, retrieval failure, or a physical decay of stored memory?

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retrieval failure.

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When someone mentions Ivy League colleges, Trisha immediately thinks of Harvard University. In this instance, Harvard University is a

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prototype.

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A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of

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an algorithm.

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The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to

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save time in arriving at solutions to problems.