AP Psych Ch. 7 Test Review

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A person assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?
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The serial position effect
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A researcher asks participants to identify red shapes presented on a video screen. Following this, novel objects of various colors are depicted on the screen. Participants correctly identify red objects more quickly than objects of a different color. The result illustrates
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priming
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A researcher shows the same video of an automobile accident to two different groups of participants. Participants in group one are asked: "Did you see a broken headlight?" Participants in group two are asked: "Did you see the broken headlight?" The researcher finds that participants in group two are much more likely to recall having seen a broken headlight, even though there actually was no broken headlight in the video. The researcher is investigating the effects of which of the following on recall?
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framing
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A teenager would most probably draw on which of the following to recall her tenth birthday party?
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Episodic memory
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A word or part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful units, is called a
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morpheme
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According to Benjamin Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, which of the following is true?
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Different languages predispose those individuals who speak them to think about the world in different ways.
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According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves
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encoding
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All human languages have several basic sounds in common called
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phonemes
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An individual uses a paper clip to unlock the door to her house because she has misplaced her key. This individual's approach to solving the problem avoids
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functional fixedness
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An individual's recall tends to be better for information that is personally relevant primarily due to which of the following phenomena?
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Self-reference effect
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Creativity is most closely associated with which of the following?
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Divergent thinking
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Professor Belvedere wants to help her anatomy students memorize the names of different parts of the body. Which of the following techniques will best help her students?
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Asking them questions about the meaning of each word
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Piper reads about someone described as adventurous and extroverted. She then judges that this person is more likely to be a lawyer who enjoys hiking than a lawyer who does not. The best explanation for Piper's error is that she is basing her judgment on
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the representativeness heuristic
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Martine needs a hammer but cannot find one. As she looks around her apartment, her gaze passes over a metal paperweight and some other objects that could potentially serve as a makeshift hammer. However, she is so focused on these objects' typical uses that she does not think to use any of them as a hammer. Martine is experiencing which of the following?
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Functional fixedness
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In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz. During a recall test, participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A. Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in
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levels of processing
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In memory experiments on free recall, the recency effect refers specifically to the
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enhanced recall of items at the end of a list of words
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John suffered a head injury in an accident five years ago. He now has clear memories of events that occurred before the accident, but he has great difficulty remembering any of the experiences he has had since the accident. John's symptoms describe
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anterograde amnesia
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Matthew's parents are physicists, and so are the parents of several of his best friends. Therefore, Matthew believes that many people are employed as physicists. Matthew's reasoning is based on
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the availability heuristic
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Dr. Rudolph's class has a big test coming up next week. Which of the following students is using a studying strategy that is most likely to lead to memory consolidation?
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Elizabeth studies for a half hour before she goes to bed each night the week before the exam.
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Noam Chomsky's view of language proposes that
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there is an inherent language acquisition device
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People who have difficulty remembering recently learned materials because of similar information learned earlier in life are demonstrating the phenomenon of
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proactive interference
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Which of the following describes one of the functions of the temporal lobe of the brain?
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It is where declarative memories are stored.
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The feeling that you know someone's name, but cannot quite recall it, is an example of
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the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
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In the morning, Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in his psychology class, he viewed the image above and readily identified it as a rabbit instead of a duck. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?
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Priming
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The psychoanalytic concept of repression suggests a difficulty in the functioning of which aspect of memory?
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Retrieval
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The two sentences "Elena won the race" and "The race was won by Elena" share which of the following structures?
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Deep
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When asked which of two countries has a larger population, participants are likely to judge the country that is more familiar to them as being more populous. Which of the following best explains this finding?
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The availability heuristic
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When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, which of the following will most likely occur?
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There will be no transfer of the information to long-term memory.
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When the word "walk" is changed to "walked," the suffix "ed" is an example of a
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morpheme
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Which area of the brain is not well developed until after three years of age, offering a possible explanation for infantile amnesia?
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Hippocampus
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Which of the following concepts refers to the structure and organization of a sentence?
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Syntax
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Which of the following is an example of a prelinguistic event?
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Babbling
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Which process transfers information from sensory memory to short-term memory?
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Attention
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Yun was learning English as an adult. She found that she had trouble with some of the sounds in English because those sounds were not part of her native Chinese. The difficulty she was having involved
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phonemes