AP Psychology Reading Questions pages 349 – 375
1. What are flashbulb memories?
2. Describe the three steps of remembering an event and what happens during
each.
3. Describe the classical three-stage processing model of memory?
4. What can you do to maintain information in you working memory?
5. What is the function of the central executive processor?
6. What kinds of information do we encode automatically?
7. How does repetition affect retention? What is over learning?
8. Describe the spacing effect.
9. How is effortful processing different from automatic processing?
10. Compare visual, acoustic and semantic processing and how they each affect
retention.
11. What is the self-reference effect?
12. Describe one mnemonic device you think might be useful to help you study
(in this class or another class).
13. How would you use chunking to remember a series of 40 numbers?
14. Compare iconic and echoic memory.
15. “Magical Number Seven plus or minus two”…what does this refer to?
16. What is the memory trace?
17. What physical changes in neurons are known as long-term potentiation?
18. How does glutamate relate to memory formation?
19. How can stress hormones affect memory?
20. What is the difference between procedural and declarative memory?
21. What role does the hippocampus play in memory?
22. What role does the cerebellum play in memory?
23. Which type of memory is involved in classical conditioning?
24. What’s the difference between recall and recognition?
25. What are some ways that context affects memory retrieval?
26. What effect can mood have on memory retrieval?
AP Psychology Reading Questions pages 349 – 375
1. What are flashbulb memories?
2. Describe the three steps of remembering an event and what happens during
each.
3. Describe the classical three-stage processing model of memory?
4. What can you do to maintain information in you working memory?
5. What is the function of the central executive processor?
6. What kinds of information do we encode automatically?
7. How does repetition affect retention? What is over learning?
8. Describe the spacing effect.
9. How is effortful processing different from automatic processing?
10. Compare visual, acoustic and semantic processing and how they each affect
retention.
11. What is the self-reference effect?
12. Describe one mnemonic device you think might be useful to help you study
(in this class or another class).
13. How would you use chunking to remember a series of 40 numbers?
14. Compare iconic and echoic memory.
15. “Magical Number Seven plus or minus two”…what does this refer to?
16. What is the memory trace?
17. What physical changes in neurons are known as long-term potentiation?
18. How does glutamate relate to memory formation?
19. How can stress hormones affect memory?
20. What is the difference between procedural and declarative memory?
21. What role does the hippocampus play in memory?
22. What role does the cerebellum play in memory?
23. Which type of memory is involved in classical conditioning?
24. What’s the difference between recall and recognition?
25. What are some ways that context affects memory retrieval?
26. What effect can mood have on memory retrieval?