Learning Curve Module 25

_____ interference occurs when new information interferes with the recall of old information.

retroactive

What statement about sexual abuse is false?

A recognizable group of symptoms known as "survivor syndrome" has been identified.

During a basketball game, Tyree suffered a concussion. Afterwards, he could not remember the game or what happened when he was treated in the hospital. Tyree was experiencing:

Anterograde amnesia

Forgetting can occur

At any stage of memory

retrograde amnesia

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

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

Deja vu

Loftus and Palmer (1974) conducted an experiment in which participants estimated the speed of a car described as either hitting or smashing into another. The _________variable in this experiment was _________.

Dependent; speed estimates

At a loud party, Maggie met so many people that when she ran into one of her new acquaintances on campus the next day, she was unable to remember the person's name. The MOST likely explanation for her forgetting the name of her new acquaintance is:

Interference

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

Misinformation

Nana is taking a Spanish final at the end of the spring semester. The problem is that the French vocabulary she leaned the semester before keep getting in the way, causing her to forget Spanish words. Nana is experiencing _________ interference

Proactive

It's evening and we're mentally replaying the day's events. We picture our facial expressions as we listened to a friend's tale of woe. Because we were unable to see these expressions at the time, our recall necessarily illustrates:

Reconsolidation