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Unit 5

5.12 Multiple Choice Questions

3 min read•november 22, 2021

Dalia Savy

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The Atkinson-Shiffrin three-stage model is a model that shows information going from shallow to deep memory with the three processes (encoding, storage, and retrieval).

Facts about the test: The AP Psychology exam has 100 multiple choice questions and you will be given 1 hour and 10 minutes to complete the section. That means it should take you around 11 minutes to complete 15 questions.

*The following questions were not written by CollegeBoard and although they cover information outlined in the AP Psychology Course and Exam Description, the formatting on the exam may be different.

1. The process of putting information into the memory system is called:

A. Storage

B. Encoding

C. Retrieval

D. Shallow processing

2. Learning a new ATM password may block the recall of a familiar old password. This illustrates

A. Proactive interference

B. Retroactive interference

C. Source amnesia

D. Serial position effect

3. The incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event is called:

A. Serial position effect

B. Retroactive interference

C. Confabulation

D. Misinformation effect

4. A person is less likely to recognize a man as a nurse than a woman as a nurse because a female nurse fits that person's...

A. Heuristic

B. Fixation

C. Algorithm

D. Prototype

5. The smallest unit of sound in language are called:

A. Holophrase

B. Morphemes

C. Phonemes

D. Telegraphic speech

6. An obstacle to problem solving involving the failure to use an object in an unusual way is called:

A. Functional fixedness

B. Mental set

C. Fixation

D. Belief bias

7. A backgammon playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of

A. Heuristic

B. Algorithm

C. Functional fixedness

D. Belief perseverance

8. An increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief and rapid stimulation and quite probably the neural basis for learning and memory is called:

A. Thalamus

B. Hippocampus

C. Retrieval

D. Long Term Potentiation

9. A sudden realization of the solution to a problem is called

A. Framing

B. Algorithm

C. Insight

D. Belief perseverance

10. Retrograde amnesia involves __failure; whereas, anterograde amnesia involves ____ failure.

A. Hippocampus; hypothalamus

B. Retrieval; encoding