Exam 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

In Lindsay's "misinformation effect" experiment,participants saw a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer.This slide presentation included narration by a female speaker who described what was happening in the slides as they were shown.Results showed that the misinformation effect was greatest when MPI presentation was

Describe memory over the lifespan by describing the relationship between the ability to remember events in one's life and age at the time of the event.For example,what would a plot of "events remembered" vs."age" look like for a 40-year-old person? How would it differ for a 70-year-old person? Additionally,describe two competing hypotheses for the reminiscence bump.

The retroactive interference hypothesis states that the misinformation effect occurs because

occurs when more recent learning impairs memory for something that happened further back in the past.

Kieran found that studying for his Spanish exam made it more difficult to remember some of the vocabulary words he had just studied for his French exam earlier in the day.This is an example of

Suppose that your friend has just done poorly on a very important college exam.She is complaining about her memory failures and wishing she could develop photographic-type memory to make life easier.Provide information based on your textbook chapter to develop a compelling argument about why it is actually beneficial that human memory is NOT like a video recorder.

An important application of memory research has been in understanding the nature of eyewitness testimony.Citing the research in your text,explain why people make errors in eyewitness testimony.

Much research has been dedicated to improving the reliability of eyewitness testimony.One finding reveals that when constructing a lineup,

Experiments that argue against a special flashbulb memory mechanism find that as time increases since the occurrence of the flashbulb event,participants

Lindsay's misinformation effect experiment,in which participants were given a memory test about a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer,showed that participants are influenced by MPI

Much attention has been focused on the misinformation effect because it provides a powerful demonstration of how suggestion can distort our memory for events.Define this effect and discuss how it has been demonstrated.Then,explain three mechanisms proposed to account for the misinformation effect,describing the experiments that have been done to test these mechanisms.

The observation that older adults often become nostalgic for the "good old days" reflects the self-image hypothesis,which states that

Asking people to recall the most influential events that happened during their college careers shows thatin people's lives appear to be particularly memorable.

The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered)illustrated the effect ofon memory.

occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.

Your text describes an experiment by Talarico and Rubin (2003)that measured people's memories of the terrorist attacks on September 11,2001.Which of the following was the primary result of that research?

Your text explains that one common type of human memory error involves source monitoring.Define source- monitoring errors.Then,describe some research that illustrates these errors.Finally,explain why these errors reinforce the characterization of memory as being "constructive."

The idea that we remember life events better because we encounter the information over and over in what we read,see on TV,and talk about with other people is called the

Research on eyewitness testimony has shown that the more confident the person giving the testimony is of their memories,

Extrapolating from the cultural life script hypothesis,which of the following events would be easiest to recall?