Psych Ch 8
Which of the following has been shown to play a role in the strength of memories that are associated with emotion?
Cortisol
Extrapolating from the cultural life script hypothesis, which of the following events would be easiest to recall?
Graduating from college at age 22
__________ occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.
Pragmatic inference
Latoya is remembering a fun day at the beach that she had with her dad when she was a little girl. Which region of brain will have the LEAST connection to the more personal aspects of Latoya's memory?
Prefrontal cortex
Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?
Winning the first grade spelling bee
In Lindsay's "misinformation effect" experiment, participants saw a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer. This slide presentation included narration by a female speaker who described what was happening in the slides as they were shown. Results showed that the misinformation effect was greatest when presentation of misleading post-event information was
auditory from a female speaker.
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
Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the
constructive nature of memory.
Arkes and Freedman's "baseball game" experiment asked participants to indicate whether the following sentence was present in a passage they had previously read about events in a game: "The batter was safe at first." Their findings showed inaccurate memories involved
creations from inferences based on baseball knowledge.
Experiments that argue against a special flashbulb memory mechanism find that as time increases since the occurrence of the flashbulb event, participants
make more errors in their recollections.
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 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.
Which of the following is key to the illusory truth effect?
repetition
Memories of the past that have been pushed out of a person's consciousness are considered to be ________.
repressed
Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen
schema
The "wedding reception" false memory experiment shows that false memories can be explained as a product of familiarity and
source misattribution.
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.
spurce misattribution
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
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.
