Exam 13: Memory Retrieval and Forgetting

A person is driving and comes to an intersection where they see a deer.After driving past the deer,a policeman pulls them over.After the standard questions,the policeman asks them if they had seen an elk on the road.The person says 'no' and goes upon their way.One week later,the same person is pulled over by another policeman.The second policeman asks the person if they had seen an elk the previous week.Forty percentage of the time,what will the person's response be?

According to Underwood,treatments that increase the distinctiveness of memories will reduce the level of interference.

Define and provide an example of proactive and retroactive interference.

A person goes to a therapist complaining of depression.During the course of the conversation,the therapist begins to ask about the person's childhood.Initially,the person says there were no problems.However,with continued leading questioning by the therapist,the person comes to believe that they were sexually abused by someone in their family.However,no sexual abuse ever occurred.This is an example of ______.

When a witness is interviewed by a person from the press and the interviewer provides additional information,what will happen with the witnesses recall?

Affective memory attributes are related to the emotional character of the event.

According to Loftus,______.

One model of forgetting contends ______.

The greater the distress ______.

Examples of motivated forgetting include ______.

In two experiments discussed in your text,participants smoked marijuana and then were given a memory task.Which type of memory task did the marijuana participants performed the best on?

Choose the most accurate answer.A student goes to a party and becomes intoxicated.The following day their friends ask them if they had an enjoyable time.However,the student does not remember if they did.This is an example of ______.

In the study where participants read the folktale 'The War of the Ghosts,' participants ______.

You have been attending your class in one particular classroom.However when you take the final,you find that the original room is under repair and that you need to go to a different classroom that has the same characteristics.According to your text,how would you expect your performance to be in the second room?

The person wants to remember a speech they are about to give.They break the speech into several key thoughts and associate these thoughts with rooms as they mentally walk through their house.This is an example of the ______.

A rat is placed in a distinctive environment and required to actively respond and avoid shock in a shuttle box.Forty-eight hours later,the rat is placed in a shuttle box in the original training room or an identical shuttle box located in a different room that had a different size,light,odor,and noise level.What would you expect to happen to the rat's performance?

The person is associating words with the phrases,'One is bun,two is a shoe,three is a tree,etc.' This is an example of the ______.

Loftus and Coan conducted a study where they had family members remind the subject of an incident where the subject was lost in a shopping mall.Their results indicated ______.

The sources of misinformation determine a person's susceptibility to misinformation.

On a visit to your old high school,lots of memories return.This is due to the ______ attribute of memory.