Exam 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

In the experiment in which participants sat in an office and then were asked to remember what they saw in the office,participants "remembered" some things,like books,that weren't actually there.This experiment illustrates the effect ofon memory.

Schrauf and Rubin's "two groups of immigrants" study found that the reminiscence bump coincided with periods of rapid change,occurring at a normal age for people emigrating early in life but shifting to 15 years later for those who emigrated later.These results support the

Your text's discussion of false memories leads to the conclusion that false memories

The repeated reproduction technique used in memory studies involves

Describe experimental evidence to explain how familiarity can lead to memory errors.Also,describe an eyewitness testimony example of this phenomenon.Finally,explain how familiarity can lead students to commit errors on a multiple choice exam.

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

In the "War of the Ghosts" experiment,participants' reproductions contained inaccuracies based on

"S," who had a photographic memory that was described as virtually limitless,was able to achieve many feats of memory.According to the discussion in your text,S's memory system operated

In the word list experiment that was based on work by Deese (1959)and Roediger & McDermott (1995),many students incorrectly remembered hearing the wordas part of the list of presented stimuli.This highlights a disadvantage of memory's constructive nature.

Jacoby's experiment,in which participants made judgments about whether they had previously seen the names of famous and non-famous people,found that inaccurate memories based on source misattributions occurred after a delay of

The misinformation effect can be explained by

For most adults over age 40,the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for

The experiment in which participants first read sentences about a baseball game and were then asked to identify sentences they had seen before,illustrated that memory

The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented

Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding post-event information and the misinformation effect?

Lindsay and coworkers "slime in the first-grade teacher's desk" experiment showed that presenting

Autobiographical memory research shows that a person's brain is more extensively activated when viewing photos

Wei has allergy symptoms.He has gone to his regular doctor and an allergy specialist,but he wasn't given a prescription by either doctor.Instead,he was advised to buy an over-the-counter medicine.While he was in the specialist's waiting area,he read a magazine where he saw three ads for an allergy medicine called SneezeLess.A week later,in a drug store,Wei says to his brother,"My doctor says SneezeLess works great.I'll buy that one." Wei and his doctor never discussed SneezeLess.Wei has fallen victim to which of the following errors?

The "telephone game" is often played by children.One child creates a story and whispers it to a second child,who does the same to a third child,and so on.When the last child recites the story to the group,his or her reproduction of the story is generally shorter than the original and contains many omissions and inaccuracies.This game shows how memory is aprocess.

Your text's discussion of eyewitness testimony illustrates that this type of memory is frequently influenced by all of the following EXCEPT