PSY 1012 PREPARATION TEST 2026
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
● Acoustic encoding. Answer: Input of sounds, words, and music.
● Amnesia. Answer: Loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result
of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma.
● Anterograde amnesia. Answer: Loss of memory for events that occur
after the brain trauma.
● Arousal theory. Answer: Strong emotions trigger the formation of
strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker
memories.
● Atkinson-Shiffrin model (A-S). Answer: Memory model that states we
process information through three systems: sensory memory, short-term
memory, and long-term memory.
● Automatic processing. Answer: Encoding of informational details like
time, space, frequency, and the meaning of words.
, ● Bias. Answer: How feelings and view of the world distort memory of
past events.
● Blocking. Answer: Memory error in which you cannot access stored
information.
● Chunking. Answer: Organizing information into manageable bits or
chunks.
● Construction. Answer: Formulation of new memories.
● Declarative memory. Answer: Type of long-term memory of facts and
events we personally experience.
● Effortful processing. Answer: Encoding of information that takes
effort and attention.
● Elaborative rehearsal. Answer: Thinking about the meaning of the new
information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your
memory.
● Encoding. Answer: Input of information into the memory system.
● Engram. Answer: Physical trace of memory.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
● Acoustic encoding. Answer: Input of sounds, words, and music.
● Amnesia. Answer: Loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result
of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma.
● Anterograde amnesia. Answer: Loss of memory for events that occur
after the brain trauma.
● Arousal theory. Answer: Strong emotions trigger the formation of
strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker
memories.
● Atkinson-Shiffrin model (A-S). Answer: Memory model that states we
process information through three systems: sensory memory, short-term
memory, and long-term memory.
● Automatic processing. Answer: Encoding of informational details like
time, space, frequency, and the meaning of words.
, ● Bias. Answer: How feelings and view of the world distort memory of
past events.
● Blocking. Answer: Memory error in which you cannot access stored
information.
● Chunking. Answer: Organizing information into manageable bits or
chunks.
● Construction. Answer: Formulation of new memories.
● Declarative memory. Answer: Type of long-term memory of facts and
events we personally experience.
● Effortful processing. Answer: Encoding of information that takes
effort and attention.
● Elaborative rehearsal. Answer: Thinking about the meaning of the new
information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your
memory.
● Encoding. Answer: Input of information into the memory system.
● Engram. Answer: Physical trace of memory.
