SAMPLE ADVANCED PLACEMENT
QUESTIONS ON MEMORY
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1. When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, which of the following will most likely occur?
The information will remain indefinately in short-term memory
There will be no transfer of the information to long term memory
The sensory registers will stop processing the information
Retrieval of the information from long term memory will be easier
Information already in long term memory will be integrated with the incoming information

2. A teenager would most probably draw on which of the following to recall her tenth birthday party?
Episodic memory
Semantic memory
Echoic memory
Eidetic memory
State-dependent learning

3. Ellen is presented with a list of 20 numbers. When asked to recall this list, she remembers more numbers from the beginning than from the end of the list. This phenomenon demonstrates which of the following types of effect?
Mnemonic
Primacy
Recency
Secondary
Clustering

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