Exam 8: Remembering Complex Events

When presented with a list of words along a theme (e.g., "bed," "rest," "slumber," "dream," "tired"), participants often (mis)recall the theme word as part of the list (e.g., "sleep"). This procedure is commonly referred to as the ________ procedure.

Which of the following claims about memory accuracy is FALSE?

Dmitri witnessed a bank robbery but now seems unable to remember what he saw. To improve Dmitri's recall, a friend hypnotizes him and asks him, while he is hypnotized, to recall the crime. Research indicates that if questioned while under hypnosis Dmitri will

Intrusion errors in memory are errors

Which of the following is NOT true of memory?

Connections among our various memories do all of the following EXCEPT

Which of the following claims regarding schema-based knowledge is FALSE?

Baddeley and Hitch asked rugby players to remember all of the rugby games they had played over the course of a single season. According to their data, which is the most important factor in determining whether the players will remember a particular game?

What are the necessary circumstances to produce false memories in research participants?

The misinformation effect refers to the fact that false information, presented after a participant has encoded an event, can intrude into the participant's subsequent recall of the event. This "planting" of memories

An important theme emerging from memory research is that memory connections

An expert is asked to comment on the confidence-accuracy relationship of an eyewitness's report. The expert will state that

Which of the following is a potential problem for memory retrieval in relation to memory connections?

Which of the following does NOT name a hypothesis concerning why we forget?

Some researchers have suggested that highly painful memories can be repressed. This theory

Whitney witnesses a car accident and then discusses it with Ryan, a passenger in one of the cars. Ryan wants her to misremember a few critical details. Whitney is UNLIKELY to adopt Ryan's false memories if

Michael and Maria both witnessed an auto accident. Maria remembers watching the car race past a stop sign, but she hears Michael report to the police that the car raced past a yield sign. Based on the results of similar studies, Maria is likely to recall that she saw

Researchers were interested in how "remember" and "know" judgments are related to memory accuracy. What did they find?

Often, people forget information about traumatic events. Repression is one controversial explanation, but other, less controversial explanations also exist. Which of the following is NOT a potential explanation for memory loss during a traumatic event?

Our "self-schema" is NOT likely to include