Exam 26: Forgetting, Memory Construction

Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fall asleep is most likely due to

Hypnotically "refreshed" memories may prove inaccurate-especially if the hypnotist asks leading questions-because of

An experiment demonstrated that people who were better at forgetting irrelevant word pairs were good at remembering relevant word pairs. Their forgetting was adaptive because it reduced

Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially

The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory

Professor Markus is a brilliant mathematician who is 70 years old and still enjoys teaching. Over the past few years, she has found it increasingly difficult to remember the names of her students. Suggest several possible explanations for the professor's memory problems.

The occasional tip-of-the-tongue forgetting experienced by older adults can be best explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with

When asked how they felt 10 years ago regarding marijuana issues, people recalled attitudes closer to their current views than to those they actually reported a decade earlier. This best illustrates

After having brain surgery to stop severe seizures, Henry Molaison could recall events he experienced prior to the surgery but was unable to form new conscious memories. Molaison's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

A loss of an encoded memory as a result of a gradual fading of the physical memory trace best illustrates

Research reports of repression and recovered memories indicate that

Many of the experimental participants who were asked how fast two cars in a filmed traffic accident were going when they smashed into each other subsequently recalled seeing broken glass at the scene of the accident. This experiment best illustrated

After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of

Following brain injury from a brutal knife attack, Mike is unable to consciously recall or recognize what a knife is. But he still shows a conditioned fear response to the sight of a knife. His conditioned reaction best indicates that he retains a(n) _____ memory.

Although Maria can encode and consciously recall new information, she is unable to consciously recall events that happened prior to the brain damage that she suffered as an adolescent. Maria's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that

Research on memory construction reveals that memories

Memory researchers are suspicious of long-repressed memories of traumatic events that are "recovered" with the aid of drugs or hypnosis because

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

The inability to recall which numbers on a dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to