Exam 7: The Reconstructive Nature of Memory

One explanation for why the memory of learning about a particularly important cultural or historical event as it occurs feels especially vivid is that ______.

When might you be able to trust the accuracy for a flashbulb memory?

Bartlett argued that long-term memory was ______.

Two cars collide at a red light.An eyewitness to the incident is later asked by a police officer how fast the vehicles were traveling when they "smashed" into each other.You'd expect that the eyewitness's memory would ______.

The results of Bartlett's (1932)study showed that participants' memories of The War of the Ghosts generally shifted toward ______.

______ are frameworks for organizing information in memory.

Questions consistent with eyewitness events results in ______ memory while inconsistent questions results in ______ memory.

Bartlett's research on the retelling of stories shows that over time the same person's recall ______.

Memory for actual events and memory for information from questions may become confused because ______,allowing their source to become indistinguishable.

McGaugh's (2015)studies with rats showed that low doses of stimulants given before or immediately after maze learning resulted in ______ errors.

Schemata allow us to ______.

Barsalou (1988)showed that only ______ of recollections that participants made could be categorized as "specific recollections" of an event.

Schemas make it ______ to reconstruct memories generally and make individual memories ______.

Which of the following is accurate with respect to research on flashbulb memories?

Repressed memories brought out under guided therapy are always reliable.

Which of the following are similarities in the false memory and eyewitness memory debates?

Our confidence for flashbulb memories always remains high even if they are not accurate.

Over time,we expect the recollection of memories to become more accurate.

Studies of eyewitness memory ______.

Schmidt and Hirst both showed that participants tend to have the best memory for ______ over long periods of time.