Ch 8 cog psych
Stanny 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.
The repeated reproduction technique used in memory studies involves
the same participants remembering some information at longer and longer intervals after learning the information.
Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding post-event information and the misinformation effect?
Even when participants are told that the post-event information is incorrect, the misinformation effect can still occur.
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 misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented
after the event
The conclusion to be drawn from the man named Shereshevskii whose abnormal brain functioning gave him virtually limitless word-for-word memory is that having memory like a video recorder
can seriously disrupt functioning in one's personal life
Lindsay's misinformation effect experiment, in which participants were given a memory test about a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer, showed that participants are influenced by misleading post-event information
even if they are told to ignore the post-event information.
In the experiment in which participants sat in an office and then were asked to remember what they saw in the office, participants "remembered" some things, like books, that weren't actually there. This experiment illustrates the effect of __________ on memory.
schemas
The "wedding reception" false memory experiment shows that false memories can be explained as a product of familiarity and
source misattribution.
Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?
winning the first grade spelling bee
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.
Much research has been dedicated to improving the reliability of eyewitness testimony. One finding reveals that when constructing a lineup,
increasing similarity between "fillers" and a suspect leads to an increased level of missed identification of some guilty suspects.
The observation that older adults often become nostalgic for the "good old days" reflects the self-image hypothesis, which states that
memory for life events is enhanced during the time we assume our life identities.
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
According to the cognitive hypothesis, experiences that occur during periods of rapid personal development followed by periods of stability tend to be easier to remember due to which of the following?
strong encoding
Autobiographical memory research shows that a person's brain is more extensively activated when viewing photos
the person took him or herself
