AP Psychology test

According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves

• hippocampus

• encoding

• Amygdala

• visual deficit

person with damage to Broca's area would most likely demonstrate which of the following symptoms?

• Difficulty with seeing

• Difficulty with reading

• Difficulty with speech production

• hippocampus

In the morning. Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in his psychology class, he viewed thei mage above and readily identified it as a rabbit instead of a duck. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?

• Priming

• Amygdala

• Broca's area

• hippocampus

Brain damage that leaves a person capable of understanding speech but with an impaired ability to produce speech most likely indicates injury to which of the following?

• Wrinkles area

• Thalamus

• Brain Stem

• Broca's area

The brain scans of people with amnesia are most likely to show damage to the

• frontal Lobes

• hippocampus

• occipital Lobes

• hypothalamus

Ted is hiking  along a mountain trail when he sees a large snake slithering across the path ahead of him.
6. Which of the following brain structures is most closely associated with Ted's fear response?

• Thalamus

• Reticular Formation

• Cerebellum

• Amygdala

Chuck recalls the day last summer when he fell off his bicycle and scraped his knee. This is an example of

• Temporal Lobes

• Reticular Formation

• Damage in Broca's Area

• episodic memory

Damage to which of the following brain structures may cause the inability to detect the emotional significance of facial expressions, especially those demonstrating fear?

• Temporal Lobes

• Infantile Amnesia

• Corpus Callosum

• Amygdala

Damage to a small part of the occipital lobe would most likely result in a

• Amnesia

• visual deficit

• Proactive Interference

• Memory loss

Damage to the cerebellum would most likely result in which of the following problems?

• A loss of motor coordination

• Hypothalamus damage

• Split Brain

• Lost of vison