Exam 19: Doing Together What We Would Not Do Alone

Memory of your familiar old e-mail password may block the recall of your new password. This illustrates

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

Research on memory construction indicates that

Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car,she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later,Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates

Arnold so easily remembers his old girlfriend's telephone number that he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend's number. Arnold's difficulty best illustrates

Loftus and Palmer asked two groups of observers how fast two cars had been going in a filmed traffic accident. Observers who heard the vividly descriptive word "smashed" in relation to the accident later recalled

Visualizing an object and actually seeing that object activate similar brain areas. This most clearly contributes to

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

During the process of psychotherapy,Elaine recovered some long-forgotten and painful memories from her childhood. This experience led her to conclude that these memories must have been repressed for many years. Discuss the issues involved in assessing the validity of Elaine's claim.

The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory

The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve

Speed-reading complex material yields little long-term retention because it inhibits

People should avoid back-to-back study times for learning Spanish and French vocabulary in order to minimize

Forgetting the correct source of an event we have experienced,heard about,or imagined is called

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 surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve

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.

Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates

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