EXPERIENCE Chapter 7 Psychology Lab: False Memory
In this experiment, the___________variable was created by _________________.
INDEPENDENT, USING DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORDS ON THE RECOGNITION TEST
Which of the following best describes participants' data from the published results? a. Participants falsely recognized more related words than they falsely recalled. b. Participants falsely recognized about the same number of related words and unrelated words. c. Participants recalled more shown words than they recognized. d. All of these can be seen in the published results.
A
Which of the following is true about each list of words presented in the experiment? a. Each word on a list was directly related to a concept that was never shown. b. Each word on a list was directly related to every other word on the list. c. Each word on a list was one of the 500 most common words in the English Language. d. All of these are true.
A
Related words are falsely recognized at a higher rate than unrelated words because _____. a. the related words were more closely related to concepts in your textbook b. of how activation spreads through related concepts in people's memories c. the related words are used more frequently in everyday conversation d. the unrelated words were mostly unfamiliar technical jargon
B
How susceptible to false recognition memories were the participants in the original study? a. Somewhat, participants said that some, but not a majority, of the related words were on one of the lists they studied. b. Extremely, participants said that every related word was on one of the lists they studied. c. Minimally, participants formed very few false memories for the related words. d. Very, participants said that a majority of the related words was on one of the lists they studied.
D