PSYCH 100-unit 8 quiz 2

Answering practice test questions about textbook material you have studied is a useful strategy for:

becoming aware of what you still need to learn.

The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve:

memory construction.

Whenever Valerie experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her abusive parents. Valerie's experience best illustrates:

mood-congruent memory.

Hearing the word "rabbit" may lead people to spell the spoken word "hair" as "h-a-r-e." This best illustrates the outcome of a process known as:

priming.

Fill-in-the-blank test questions measure ________; matching concepts with their definitions measures ________.

recall; recognition

A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of:

recognition.

The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls experiences with former teachers who were warm and generous. This best illustrates that emotional states can be:

retrieval cues.

Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates:

source amnesia.

Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates:

source amnesia.

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was questioned as to whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates:

the misinformation effect.