Chapter 8-Cognitive

9. Cryptoamnesia tends to involve ________ .

b. unconscious plagiarism

1. Experiments that argue against a special flashbulb memory mechanism find that as time increases since the occurrence of the flashbulb event, participants:

b. make more errors in their recollections.

3. The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (ex.: Sebastian Weissdorf) illustrated the effect of ________.

b. source misattributions

10. Which of the following is NOT a recommendation for using a lineup that would avoid mistaken identifications?

c. When presenting a lineup, use simultaneous rather than sequential presentation.

5. The conclusion to be drawn from the man named Shereshevskii whose abnormal brain functioning gave him virtually limitless word-for-word memory is that having memory like a video recorder:

c. none of these

7. The ________ proposes that periods of rapid change that are followed by stability cause stronger encoding of memories.

d. cognitive hypothesis

2. Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the:

d. constructive nature of memory.

8. Critical to a cognitive interview is

d. letting a witness talk with minimal interruption.

4. Your friend is sick, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen:

d. schema.

6. In typical "weapons focus" experiment investigating memory for crime scenes:

d. the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event.