PSY 410- Ch 8 Quiz

Asking people to recall the most influential events that happened during their college careers shows that __________ in people's lives appear to be particularly memorable.

transition points

A cognitive interview involves

-reinstating the context and reporting everything. -assessing the duration and capacity of the witness's Long-Term Memory to see if he or she is capable of providing valid testimony. -revisiting the scene of the crime under hypnosis.

Which of the following terms does NOT reflect the concept of flashbulb memories?

Accurate

Extrapolating from the cultural life script hypothesis, which of the following events would be easiest to recall?

Graduating from college at age 22

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.

Each of the following is a limitation to the classic diary method except:

It lacks any experimental control

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

Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?

Winning the first grade spelling bee

For most adults over age 40, the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for

adolescence and young adulthood.

According to the ______ approach to memory, what people report as memories is based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge, experiences, and expectations.

constructive

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

cryptoamnesia.

A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that

extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate.

The idea that we remember life events better because we encounter the information over and over in what we read, see on TV, and talk about with other people is called the

narrative rehearsal hypothesis.

Memories of the past that have been pushed out of a person's consciousness are considered to be ________.

repressed

Autobiographical memory research shows that a person's brain is more extensively activated when viewing photos

the person took himself or herself.

_______ occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.

Pragmatic inference

One disadvantage of showing people mug shots is that it

increases the probability of a false identification.

The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented

after the event.