Exam 7: The Reconstructive Nature of Memory

Hirst and colleagues' study of flashbulb memories for the events of September 11 showed that participants' ______ fell while ______ remained high.

Which of the following is a valid criticism for how to relate laboratory experiments on eyewitness memory to memory for actual crimes?

Eyewitnesses are more likely to overestimate the speed of two cars involved in a collision if they are asked how fast they were going when they "smashed into each other" than when they "hit each other."

Linton's studies on autobiographical memory showed that we use some pieces of information or assumptions in order to ______ autobiographical memories without actually remembering them.

According to Neisser (1982),laboratory studies of memory are useful for understanding how memory works in ______.

Explain how Lane's reconsolidation therapy uses the reconstructive nature of memory to reduce the effect of traumatic memories.

Loftus and Pickrell's (1995)studies on the "lost-in-the mall" paradigm suggest that ______.

Clancy and colleagues (2000)recruited women who had never experienced child abuse,women who had experienced child abuse and remembered it,women who believed they had experienced child abuse but had no memory,and women who had recovered previously repressed memories of abuse and had them complete the Roediger-McDermott paradigm to test for false word recall.They found that women who ______ had the highest rate of false recall in the task.

According to Weaver (1993),the "flash" in flashbulb memories only affects ______.

______ of brain functioning during learning reduces memory errors,while ______ of brain functioning during learning increases memory errors.

According to Cochran and colleagues (2016),why might leading questions for eyewitnesses possibly affect their reliability?

Based on Bartlett's (1932)results for memory of The War of the Ghosts,you'd expect that Native American participants would have ______ memory for the passage while white participants would have ______ memory for the passage.

Eyewitness memory is highly susceptible to leading questions.

Studies of eyewitness memory have shown that eyewitness memory is prone to error based on ______.

Studies of eyewitness memory suggest that eyewitness testimony should be ______.

Linton identified two types of "unrecalled" items from her memory self-study.These were items that were ______ and items that ______.

False memories are ______.

Which of the following is NOT an example of an autobiographical memory?

According to memory researchers,which of the following is NOT a reason that we might feel that we have especially vivid flashbulb memories for important events?

Using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm,researchers have shown that 80% of participants remember words on a list that were not actually included.