Intro to Psychology Exam 3

_____ is the psychologist associated with experiments on chimpanzees that demonstrated their ability to display insight.

Wolfgang Kohler

Laurie, Jim's wife, complains that he never notices when she has made changes in her hair style. At her latest hair appointment, she had several inches cut from her hair. When Jim came home from work he greeted her and did not notice or make a comment about her new hair style until Laurie pointed out his failure to notice. Jim likely did not notice the difference because of a(n)_____ failure.

encoding

The more similar information is in two memories, the more likely it is that _____ will occur.

interference

One of the reasons people have regrets about their "misspent youth" in later life is due to the effect of ____ on memory.

maturation

The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that encoding and retrieval involve _____.

memory construction

Proactive interference

prior learning disrupts your recall of new information

One way that researchers have explored short-term memory is by eliminating _____, as in the study conducted by Lloyd Peterson and Margaret Peterson.

rehearsal

_____ allow us to quickly categorize new objects and events with little cognitive effort.

concepts

Jonny has suffered hippocampal damage from a near-fatal bus crash. He is able to remember verbal information, but has no ability to recall visual designs and locations. He has probably suffered damage to his:

right hippocampus

The fact that our confidence in the validity of a particular memory is unrelated to the accuracy of that memory is due to _____.

source amnesia

A new patient claims to have been molested and discovered this after going to a hypnotherapist. One should be skeptical because hypnotized subjects incorporate _____ into their memories.

suggestions