AP Psychology Module 31

Caitlin, a fifth grader, is asked to remember her second-grade teacher's name. What measure of retention will Caitlin use to answer this question?

• Storage

• Recognition

• Relearning

• Recall

• Encoding

Which of the following is most likely to be encoded automatically?

• The side-angle-side geometry theorem

• The names of the last 10 U.S. presidents

• What you ate for breakfast this morning

• The license plate of your new car

Memory is best defined as

• the conscious encoding of information.

• stored knowledge that has been semantically encoded.

• the persistence of learning through the storage and retrieval of information.

• the retrieval of stored information in precisely the same form in which it was encoded.

• recalling and retrieving information stored in the cerebral cortex.

The process of getting information into memory is called

• priming.

• chunking.

• encoding.

• registering.

• storing.

The process of getting information into memory is called

• priming.

• chunking.

• encoding.

• registering.

• storing.