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Memory, Cognition, and Language — HS Psychology practice questions

12 multiple-choice questions and 16 flashcards on Memory, Cognition, and Language, about 8% of the HS Psychology bank. Every one carries a written rationale.

Written and maintained by the CoStudy team · last updated 2026-10-12 · how we write and review questions

What this chapter covers

Memory, Cognition, and Language is one of 13 chapters in CoStudy's HS Psychology bank, and it holds 12 of the bank's 150 multiple-choice questions — roughly 8% of the total. That proportion is not arbitrary: chapters follow the certifying body's published exam outline, and the number of questions in each is set by that domain's published weight, so the share of your practice time this chapter takes matches the share of the real exam it accounts for.

Studying by chapter is worth doing once you have a diagnostic score. A single overall percentage tells you whether you are close; it does not tell you which domain is dragging. Working a weak chapter in isolation, and re-testing it in isolation, is the fastest way to move a score that has stalled — and it is why the mock exams in CoStudy report by domain rather than as one number.

Free Memory, Cognition, and Language practice questions

3 questions drawn from this chapter, with the full rationale shown — the controlling principle behind the right answer, and why each wrong option tempts and fails.

After seeing news of plane crashes, a person judges flying more dangerous than driving. This reflects the:

  1. representativeness heuristic
  2. anchoring effect
  3. availability heuristic
  4. confirmation bias

Answer: C — availability heuristic

C) Correct — Events that come easily to mind seem more common than they are. A) Judges by similarity to a typical case. B) Relies too much on a first number or fact. D) Seeks information that supports existing beliefs.

Learning Spanish makes it harder to recall the French vocabulary you learned earlier. This is:

  1. proactive interference
  2. repression
  3. encoding failure
  4. retroactive interference

Answer: D — retroactive interference

D) Correct — New learning interferes with recalling old learning. A) Is old learning blocking new; here the new blocks the old. B) Is pushing painful memories out of awareness. C) The French was encoded; the problem is retrieval.

Without rehearsal, short-term memory lasts about:

  1. 20 to 30 seconds
  2. less than a second
  3. about 5 minutes
  4. hours, if the item is important

Answer: A — 20 to 30 seconds

A) Correct — Information fades quickly unless it is rehearsed or encoded into long-term memory. B) Is iconic (visual sensory) memory. C) Is far longer than short-term memory lasts unrehearsed. D) Importance alone doesn't extend it; rehearsal or encoding does.

Memory, Cognition, and Language flashcards

1 cards from the 16 in this chapter.

Three-stage memory model?

Sensory → short-term/working → long-term.

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These are a sample. The full Memory, Cognition, and Language chapter runs 28 items with per-chapter progress tracking, on the web and in the iOS app.

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