Exam 10: Memory and Our Social Selves

What are the three reasons for the finding that the sum of what is remembered as a group is less than the sum of all the individual memories? Briefly explain each.

To understand the impact that recall has on memory, we must understand ________, which is the spread of ideas, information, and practices through interpersonal contact or communication.

Better memory for material that has been brought up in conversation is related to the "generation effect," a phenomenon found in many memory paradigms where material that ________ generated by the participants ________.

The results from Hamilton and Gifford (1976) showed that stereotypes can be produced with relative ease ________.

The mere exposure effect is closely related to the "propinquity effect," which is the _________.

What is the implicit-association test, published by Greenwald et al. (1998) and what does it reveal about stereotypes?

Implicit memory is memory that operates outside of awareness, and it is experienced as a sense of knowing without a sense of remembering. The sense of familiarity generated by implicit memory influences our beliefs and affects our social behaviour in a variety of ways. Explain these statements and discuss in some detail how implicit memories affect social behaviours.

The mere exposure effect is a term used in social psychology to describe ________ in positive affect that follows from ________ to a previously unfamiliar stimulus.

What are the costs and benefits associated with groups of people working together to try to recall the same information?

Participants are more likely to show social contagion when ________.

In certain cases, the sum of what is remembered as a group is less than the sum of all the individual memories. The following is not a reason for this phenomenon: ________.

What is social contagion? What are three examples of cognitive moderators that heighten or lessen the observation of social contagion?

Transactive memory is thought to occur because ________.

According to Elizabeth Loftus, the misinformation effect is ________.

Source of the misinformation effect do not include ________.

What is a distinctiveness-based illusory correlation? How is this concept related to stereotypes?

Collaborative inhibition ________.

People who take the implicit-association test (IAT) will explicitly deny holding stereotypical views but will still show a tendency to make stereotype-consistent responses ________ than responses that are inconsistent with a stereotype, and this is because stereotypes are held in ________.

"Participants are more likely to show social contagion when the speaker has more power than the listener." Provide examples taken from your own experience, discuss the social and political implications, and finally suggest the countermeasures that society should take to address this important issue.

Stereotypical information ________.