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AP Psychology name____________________________
Mr. Honma section____
Quiz on Unit 5-1: Cognition The answers for items 1-25 are found among the options in the column directly to their right. 1)___encoding A) banishing anxiety-causing memories from consciousness 2)___morphemes B) first and last items on a list remembered best 3)___mnemonics C) helps process explicit memories for storage 4)___recall D) impairment of language 5)___repression E) recalling experiences consistent with one’s current mood 6)___parallel processing AB) holding onto initial conceptions even when they are wrong 7)___implicit memory AC) smallest unit in a language that carries meaning 8)___spacing effect AD) language determines the way we think 9)___hippocampus AE) assessing many aspects of a problem simultaneously 10)___long-term potentiation BC) attributing information to the wrong source 11)___mood-congruent memory BD) smallest distinctive sound unit in a language 12)___serial position effect BE) memory aids, such as vivid imagery 13)___proactive interference CD) Controls language expression. Directs muscle movements. 14)___retroactive interference CE) retention independent of conscious recollection 15)___misinformation effect DE) expands the number of possible problem solutions 16)___source amnesia ABC) early speech using mostly nouns and verbs 17)___divergent thinking ABD) Retrieving information learned earlier. Responding to a prompt. 18)___heuristic ABE) new learning disrupts the recall of old information 19)___belief perseverance BCD) the way an issue is posed 20)___framing BCE) increase in a cell’s firing potential 21)___phoneme BDE) prior learning disrupts recall of new information 22)___aphasia CDE) incorporating misleading information into memory of an event 23)___Broca’s area ACD) processing information into memory 24)___linguistic determinism ADE) efficient, error-prone, thinking strategy 25)___telegraphic speech ACE) better retention of information compared to massed practice The answers for items 26-45 are found among the options in the column directly to their right. 26)___availability heuristic A) often unconscious activation of particular memory associations 27)___representativeness heuristic B) searching for information that supports what we think 28)___mental set C) conscious, active, processing of incoming information 29)___prototype D) momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli 30)___priming E) measure of the amount of time saved when learning material again 31)___iconic memory AB) likelihood judged by how well things match a prototype 32)___storage AC) unconscious encoding of incidental information 33)___confirmation bias AD) memory improves after retrieving information, rather than simply rereading 34)___retrograde amnesia AE) identifying previously-learned information 35)___flashbulb memory BC) best example of a category 36)___testing effect BD) methodical, guaranteed, problem-solving procedure 37)___recognition BE) inability to retrieve past information 38)___deep processing CD) basic encoding using the appearance or structure of words 39)___shallow processing CE) brain area involved in language comprehension and expression 40)___short-term memory DE) likelihood judged by how readily an example comes to mind 41)___Wernicke’s area ABC) active memory, holds information briefly 42)___algorithm ABD) clear memory of an emotional event 43)___automatic processing ABE) inability to form new memories 44)___anterograde amnesia BCD) What worked before is sure to work now. Fixation example. 45)___relearning BCE) retaining information
