AP Psychology Reading Check #8

Recall

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?

working memory

In history class, James is effortfully and actively thinking about how various events connect with one another, connecting the new material to what he has learned in the past. This making of connections in the moment best describes James'

Many students find multiple-choice tests easier than short-answer tests

Which of the following is a logical and objective conclusion that one can make regarding the three measures of retention?

Serotonin

Dr. Quarqortog is conducting a replication of a study on the role of neurotransmitters in memory. Which of the following neurotransmitters would this researcher most likely use to demonstrate support for past research that showed how particular neurotransmitters improve memory?

It would be unethical to subject some human research participants to hippocampal damage in the study.

Which of the following reasons best explains why it would be unethical to use human research participants for this work?

Remembering that thunder and lightning go together

Which of the following would be the most appropriate operational definition for Dr. Wallobee's dependent variable in this study?

Being 10 digits long, the number is beyond Miller's working memory capacity.

Meloni's boss gave her the phone number, including the area code, of a client she needed to call. As Meloni goes to enter the number into the contacts list on her phone, she finds that she cannot remember all the numbers in the right order. Which of the following is the best explanation for this failure?

What you ate for breakfast this morning

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

Thinking about how the words relate to your own life

Which of the following is most likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words?

The impact of the testing effect on learning

Based on the information provided in the graph, what were the researchers most interested in testing?

The researchers used quantitative methods in this study.

Which of the following statements is most accurate?

The average length of time for which the college students remembered auditory information was 3.47 seconds.

Dr. Tamir conducted a study on echoic memory with a sample of college students, finding that the mean length of echoic memory was 3.47 seconds. Which of the following statements accurately interprets this value?

Activation in the cerebellum

Dr. Gusdaw conducted a memory experiment that examined the brain regions associated with forming implicit memories. Which of the following would be the best choice for his independent variable?

Roberto remembers that correlation does not prove a cause-effect relationship because his teacher emphasized this fact over and over again.

Which of the following is an example of a flashbulb memory?

Short-term memory

While reading about the results of a study on memory, imagine that you read this statement: "After observing hundreds of participants across their lives, researchers found that this type of memory is nearly limitless and lasts, at times, for a lifetime." Which variable is most likely being discussed in this description?

Semantic networks

Dr. Pygmal investigates how people group similar concepts together based on their interrelations. What does Dr. Pygmal study?

There is a high likelihood that sleep's effect on semantic network formation was due to chance or error.

Researchers conducted a study in which they first taught 30 new vocabulary words to a group of participants. That evening, the researchers tracked the number of hours the participants slept and the number of new vocabulary words the participants remembered the next day, finding that there was a statistically significant and positive relationship between hours slept and words remembered. Which of the following provides the most accurate interpretation of these results?

Context-dependent memory

John has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them in the same seat in which he sits during class than when he sits in a different seat for exams. Assuming that John is properly prepared for exams, what psychological concept best explains the difference in his scores?

Remembering the beginning and end of your grocery list but not the items in the middle

Which of the following is an example of the serial position effect?

Primacy effect

What psychological concept is depicted in the graph?

The data in the graph represent quantitative data.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the data depicted in the graph?

Metacognition

Antonia is testing herself in preparation for her upcoming psychology test. She is aware of the value of the testing effect. Which other retrieval practice strategy is she employing by way of her self-testing?

Interleaving

Gabe has tests next week in his biology and psychology classes, and he knows that mixing his study of the two topics — shifting from biology to psychology and back — is an effective way to improve retention. What's the name of the technique described here?

Recency effect

Dani is at a meeting where everyone goes around the table and introduces themselves. By the end, Dani can only remember the names of the last two people who introduced themselves. This is an example of which concept?

A multiple choice question

Which of the following involves accessing memory through recognition?