AP®︎ Psychology: Topic 2.3 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 2.3 of AP Psychology – Introduction to Memory.
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Topic 2.3
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: 2.3.A.1
What type of memory involves personal experiences?
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Topic 2.3: Introduction to Memory
Learning Objective: 2.3.A
Explain how the types, structures, and processes of memory work.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.1
Memories for learned knowledge, events, and experiences are differentiated by how they are processed by, stored in, and retrieved by the brain.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.1.i
Explicit memory is a type of memory that is more easily described or explained to others. Types of explicit memory include episodic and semantic.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.1.ii
Implicit memory is more challenging to describe or explain to others. Procedural memory is a type of implicit memory for procedures and processes.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.1.iii
Prospective memory is a type of memory related to future actions.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.2
Long-term potentiation, a process by which synaptic connections between neurons become stronger with frequent activation, is a biological process for memory.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.3
The working memory model examines how our primary memory system—working memory— engages in a dynamic interaction with several components, namely the central executive, phonological loop, and visuospatial sketchpad, to process information into long-term memory.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.4
The multi-store model proposes three interacting systems (sensory memory [including iconic and echoic memory], short-term memory, and long-term memory) that information must pass through to be remembered. This model focuses on the impact of automatic and effortful processing on memory encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Essential Knowledge: 2.3.A.5
The levels of processing model proposes that memory is encoded on three levels from shallowest to deepest: structural, phonemic, and semantic.
