AP Psych Unit 2 Part 4

Police interrogators have been trained to ask less suggestive and more effective questions to avoid:

• the misinformation effect.

• proactive interference.

• implicit memory distortion.

• retroactive interference.

The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to:

• encoding failure.

• retrieval failure.

• repression.

• retroactive interference.

After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of:

• retroactive interference.

• proactive interference.

• implicit memory.

• repression.

The inability to remember events in one's life which occurred prior to a brain injury is known as:

• retrograde amnesia.

• anterograde amnesia.

• implicit memory loss.

• procedural memory loss.

Professor Tomsky has so many memories of former students that she has difficulty remembering the names of new students. The professor's difficulty best illustrates:

• proactive interference.

• retroactive interference.

• retrieval failure.

• encoding failure.

Who emphasized that we repress anxiety-arousing memories?

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• Jean Piaget

• Carl Rogers

One component of emotional intelligence involves:

• predicting accurately when feelings are about to change.

• the ability to repress anxiety-arousing memories.

• utilizing implicit memory to solve problems.

• recognizing the spacing effect in learning.

In Dr. Verte's study, 20 participants in romantic relationships viewed 100 faces demonstrating different facial expressions. Dr. Verte asked the participants to identify whether the face was demonstrating happiness, sadness, anger, or fear. Dr. Verte added up the total number of correct facial expression identifications. Which psychological concept was most likely being studied?

• Emotional intelligence

• Implicit memory

• Repression

• Proactive interference

Howard Gardner identified a total of how many intelligences?

• 7

• 8

• 9

• 10

The characteristics of savant syndrome have been used to support:

• Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

• Skinner's behavioral theories.

• Freud's psychoanalytic theories.

• Piaget's stages of cognitive development.