Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors (short quiz)

In In the "sleep list" false memory experiment, false memory occurs because of..

Constructive memory processes

Much research has been dedicated to improving the reliability of eyewitness testimony. One finding reveals that when constructing a lineup, ____ similarity between the "fillers" and the suspect does result in missed identification of some guilty suspects but also substantially reduces erroneous identification of many innocent people.

increasing

Your friend has been sick for several days, 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...

schema

Lindsay and coworkers "slime in the first-grade teacher's desk" experiment showed that presenting...

A photograph of the participant's first-grade class increased the likelihood of false memories

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...

Constructive nature of memory

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

Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?

It is memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event that remains especially vivid but not necessarily accurate over time.

____ occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.

Pragmatic inference

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

Stany and Johnson's 'weapons focus' experiment, investigating memory for crime scenes, found that...

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