Psychology - Module 25

The feeling that one has had the same experience before is known as _____.

déjà vu

Luca has been studying all week for his final exam in biology. He studies until he is ready to go to bed because he knows that information presented within _____ before sleep will be remembered well.

1 hour

With respect to amnesia, "antero-" is to "retro-" as _____ is to _____.

after; before

The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called:

proactive interference.

Whenever Mark tries to recall his new cell-phone number, he keeps getting it mixed up with his old cell-phone number. Mark's failure to remember his new cell-phone number is probably caused by:

proactive interference.

While taking an American history exam, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the first president of the United States. Her difficulty MOST clearly illustrates:

retrieval failure.

Ebbinghaus is associated with:

the forgetting curve.

The misinformation effect highlights the:

changeability of memory.

Morris was sitting in the park one day and witnessed a robbery. When asked by the police to describe the "young criminal," Morris recalled erroneously that the criminal was a teenager rather than an adult. Morris's experience BEST illustrates the _____ effect.

misinformation

Owen has trouble remembering a friend's new phone number; he keeps recalling the old number instead. Completing a rental application, Pippa finds she cannot recall one of her previous addresses, as she has had several addresses since then. Owen is experiencing _____ interference. Pippa is experiencing _____ interference.

proactive; retroactive

Omar experienced a dissociative fugue state. He suddenly snapped out of it in front of a pet supplies display in a Boise, Idaho, discount store; he had no memory whatsoever of his previous life in Greensboro, North Carolina. Omar's amnesia is BEST described as:

retrograde.

An attorney uses misleading questions to distort a court witness's recall of a previously observed crime. This BEST illustrates:

the misinformation effect.