Exam 10: Memory and Our Social Selves

Participants' social contagion can be influenced by warnings that a speaker may not be a good source of information, but the timing of the warning is important, ________.

What is cognitive dissonance and what effect does it have on memory?

Hasher and Toppino (1977) exposed people to some factoids, some of which were true and some false, and some of the factoids were repeated across sessions. They found that participants were ________ to rate a repeated item than a non-repeated item as valid, ________.

In 1932, ________ was the first psychologist to publish work on social networks and memory.

Residential schools inflicted harm to Indigenous people in Canada that ________.

Collaborative inhibition is best explained by ________.

Hermann Ebbinghaus, the first researcher to study memory experimentally, used _______ instead of words to study memory because ________.

Cognitive moderators-factors that can heighten the observation of social contagion-do not include ________.

Consider a marginalized group in our society. What collective memories for this group exist and what is the source of those memories? What change in collective memory could help improve equity and justice in that group?

If a person is asked to recall a story to an audience, the narrator will ________.

According to cognitive dissonance theory, ________.

During a conversation, people must discuss some information while intentionally not discussing other information, and these unmentioned memories are called "mnemonic silences." The two most likely causes of this phenomenon are ________.

In a study of the neuroscience of cognitive dissonance, Van Veen et al. (2009) found that activation of the ________, occurred in participants who changed their attitude about the fMRI from unpleasant to pleasant, but saw no such activation in controls or participants whose attitudes did not change.

In Elizabeth Loftus's social contagion experiments, ________ of participants could be made to falsely remember entire events.

The distinctiveness-based illusory correlation is when ________.

The mere exposure effect demonstrates that ________.

The difference between collective memory and shared memory is ________.

What are mnemonic silences and how are they related to retrieval-induced forgetting?

The implicit-association test (IAT) demonstrates that people are ______.

In a meta-analysis study, Mullen and Johnson (1990) found that distinctiveness-based illusory correlations were ________.