EXP 3604C CH 8

Your text's discussion of false memories leads to the conclusion that false memories

are a natural consequence of a largely adaptive memory system

The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented

after the event

Loftus and Palmer's "car-crash slides" experiment described in the text shows how a seemingly minor word change can produce a change in a person's memory report. In this study, the Misleading Post event Information was (were) the word(s)

"smashed"

Extrapolating from the cultural life script hypothesis, which of the following events would be easiest to recall?

Graduating from college at age 22

The memory-trace replacement hypothesis states that the misinformation effect occurs because

MPI (Misleading Postevent Information) impairs or replaces memories formed during the original experiencing of an event.

For most adults over age 40, the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for:

adolescence and early adulthood

The "telephone game" is often played by children. One child creates a story and whispers it to a second child, who does the same to a third child, and so on. When the last child recites the story to the group, his or her reproduction of the story is generally shorter than the original and contains many omissions and inaccuracies. This game shows how memory is a ______ process

constructive

A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that:

extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate

Your text's discussion of eyewitness testimony illustrates that this type of memory is frequently influenced by all of the following EXCEPT

failing to elaboratively rehearse these kinds of events due to fear

The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered) illustrated the effect of _____ on memory.

source misattributions