Cognition Chapter 8

Damage to which of the following areas would be most likely to impair processing and encoding of emotional memories?

Amygdala

Whenever Mary is asked how she and John met, she instantly remembers how John bumped into her while she was leaving a store. The collision caused her to drop her bags, and he felt so bad that he offered to help her carry her bags. They started talking and eventually got dinner! Her ability to relive that memory and vividly remember her feelings and the conversation is which type of memory?

Event-specific knowledge

Vividly remembering where you were during the April 15th, 2013 terrorist attack of the Boston Marathon would be an example of

Flashbulb memory

The Misinformation Effect can be considered a form of:

Reconsolidation

Sheri is 65 and finds that she struggles to remember information from her early 30s, but is surprised that she can still remember her high school years quite well. Sheri is experiencing the:

Reminiscence bump

Memories for general knowledge and facts are which type of memory?

Semantic

Judy is at a party and she sees a woman she swears she knows, but cannot think of where they would have met. This is an example of:

Source monitoring

Patients with which area of damage have the highest level of forgetting of flashbulb memories?

Temporal lobe damage

Loftus and Palmer (1974) used different verbs when interviewing subjects about a car accident. Which best describes their results?

Words used on the questioning influenced participants' speed estimates

Which of these is not a viable possible explanation for infantile amnesia?

Young children never encode the information in memory in the first place

Research shows which of the following is true regarding autobiographical memories and depression

Negative memories are associated with increased levels of physiological arousal in individuals with higher rates of depression

The process of reconsolidation has been explored in regards to therapeutic techniques in order to help patients suffering from:

PTSD

Our inability to remember events from before the age of 4 is termed:

Infantile amnesia

Incorrect information changing a memory is referred to as the

Misinformation Effect

Researchers presented a list of words such as glove, finger, shake, and thumb to participants without ever showing them the word "hand." Nonetheless, many subjects report seeing the word "hand." This paradigm used to demonstrate the suggestibility of memory is referred to as the:

DRM Paradigm

Which of the following types of autobiographical memory refers to sequences of events that are all related?

General events

The 'reminiscence bump' refers to:

Increased episodic memories for memories from mid-adulthood to late adulthood

Elizabeth Loftus found that:

Memories can be altered by information after the original coding, and completely novel false memories can be created

One function of autobiographical memory is theorized to be allowing us to reminisce about the past or imagine future events. This is referred to as which of the following?

Mental time traveling

Based on the available evidence, which of these is true of 'Flashbulb Memories'?

People often feel as if they are resistant to forgetting