Psychology Module 24- Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory

Why does a woman have trouble remembering the license plate number of a car that she just saw 10 minutes ago?

The number was probably never encoded in the first place.

It's evening and Benson is mentally replaying the day's events. He pictures his facial expression as he listened to a friend's tale of woe. Because he was unable to see his expression at the time, his recall necessarily illustrates:

reconsolidation

Several months after watching a science fiction movie about space travel and alien abduction, Daniel began to remember that aliens had abducted him and had subjected him to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall BEST illustrates _____ amnesia.

source

Ebbinghaus is associated with:

the forgetting curve.

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

the misinformation effect.

The MOST common response to a traumatic experience involves:

vivid and persistent memories.

The controversy regarding claims of repressed and recovered memories is BEST described as involving:

whether repressed memories of childhood abuse that are recovered using hypnosis, guided imagery, or other highly suggestive techniques are false memories or memories of actual experiences.

Some patients with anterograde amnesia have learned how to spot hard-to-find figures in the Where's Waldo? series without any conscious awareness that they can do so. This BEST illustrates their retention of _____ memory.

implicit

Bruce watches a new television program with enthusiasm. He then watches a second, similar program. Bruce later finds it difficult to remember the details of the first program; he finds that details about the second program keep intruding. What has probably occurred?

retroactive interference

Dana is suffering from _____ when she fails to remember events preceding traumatic brain injury.

retrograde amnesia