Exam 7: The Reconstructive Nature of Memory

According to Brewer's research on autobiographical memory,______.

______ amnesia refers to our inability to recall autobiographical memories from the first few years of life.

Bransford and colleagues asked participants to read sentences derived from four basic sentences: "The ants were in the kitchen," "The jelly was on the table," "The jelly was sweet," and "The ants ate the jelly." Participants saw two of the simple sentences,and several combinations of two or three of the simple sentences.On a later recognition test,participants were most confident in "remembering" having seen ______.

According to Neisser (1982),which of the following is necessary for adequately understanding the nature of memory processes?

Explain our level of confidence in flashbulb memories and how this may contribute to memory errors.

Based on the results of autobiographical memory studies,you'd expect to have the best and most specific memory for which of the following events?

The self-help book The Courage to Heal,which offered advice to those who had suffered childhood abuse,raises concerns for the accuracy of recovered memories because ______.

The idea that we might repress memories of traumatic events which can only be recovered later dates back to ______'s psychoanalytic tradition.

According to Brewer (1988),the ______ distinct the mental representation of an event,the ______ likely it is to be recalled.

Based on the false memory studies reviewed,who might you expect would be most likely to create a false memory?