Module 25 Practice Quiz

Janice claims to remember being sexually abused by her uncle when she was less than a year old. Her memory is not likely to be reliable because of:

infantile amnesia.

Our ability to recognize material can make us feel _____, which might lead to poorer performance on certain tests.

overconfident

It is not uncommon for us to recognize a person but to have no idea where we met him or her. Or, we may hear something but later recall that we saw it. Both types of misattribution are known as:

source amnesia.

Memory experts who are skeptical about reports of repressed and recovered memories emphasize that:

therapeutic techniques such as guided imagery and dream analysis encourage the construction of false memories.

New memories are _____; they need to be _____ if one wants to remember them.

weak; exercised

Who is MOST likely to have memory difficulties?

Jane, who studies Spanish and French back-to-back

Events that are forgotten are like books that cannot be found in a library. Which of the following scenarios can BEST be used to explain the encoding problem?

The book was never purchased for and placed in the library.

Which of the following best describes the typical forgetting curve?

a rapid initial decline in retention, becoming stable thereafter

Most forgetting curves indicate that the course of forgetting is initially rapid, but then it levels off with time. One explanation for the shape of the curves is a(n):

gradual fading of the physical memory trace.