Question 1

According to Greenwald (1980), autobiographical memory recall is subject to a variety of cognitive biases, which do not include ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  egocentricity 
B)  collectivism 
C)  beneffectance 
D)  conservatism 
A)  egocentricity 
B)  collectivism 
C)  beneffectance 
D)  conservatism

Question 2

According to Lisman (1999), how is the hippocampal circuit well suited to store the two main features of episodic memory: sequence and context?

Accepted Answer

Lisman (1999) argues that the hippocampu

Question 3

Wildschut et al. (2006) suggest that nostalgia serves at least three functions, which do not include ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  increasing self-regard 
B)  heightening positive mood 
C)  making personal memories stronger 
D)  fostering a sense of connection to other people of importance to the person 
A)  increasing self-regard 
B)  heightening positive mood 
C)  making personal memories stronger 
D)  fostering a sense of connection to other people of importance to the person

Question 4

What is the reminiscence bump? What are the biological, cognitive, and sociocultural explanations for it?

Accepted Answer

The reminiscent bump describes the tende

Question 5

People with hyperthymesia ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  regularly outperform their peers when tested at school 
B)  would do very well on a game show like Jeopardy 
C)  have exceptional memory for events from their own lives 
D)  have excellent memory for facts and a sense of identity 
A)  regularly outperform their peers when tested at school 
B)  would do very well on a game show like Jeopardy 
C)  have exceptional memory for events from their own lives 
D)  have excellent memory for facts and a sense of identity

Question 6

________ refers to the phenomenon of remembering something that hasn't actually happened before, but with feeling of remembering.

Accepted Answer

A)  Déjà vécu 
B)  False memory 
C)  Reconsolidation 
D)  Retrograde amnesia 
A)  Déjà vécu 
B)  False memory 
C)  Reconsolidation 
D)  Retrograde amnesia

Question 7

Internal memory cues give rise to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  encoding/retrieval specificity effects 
B)  state-dependent memory effects 
C)  decoding/storage specificity effects 
D)  state-independent memory effects 
A)  encoding/retrieval specificity effects 
B)  state-dependent memory effects 
C)  decoding/storage specificity effects 
D)  state-independent memory effects

Question 8

The impairment in people with disrupted episodic memory suggests that a primary purpose of episodic memory is to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  prevent people from daydreaming 
B)  allow people to daydream 
C)  allow people to track experiences and to distinguish between daydreams and fantasies and thoughts representing events that have actually occurred 
D)  avoid thoughts representing events that have not actually occurred 
A)  prevent people from daydreaming 
B)  allow people to daydream 
C)  allow people to track experiences and to distinguish between daydreams and fantasies and thoughts representing events that have actually occurred 
D)  avoid thoughts representing events that have not actually occurred

Question 9

Both episodic and generic autobiographical information activates ________ associated with self-reference (but episodic information activates this area to a greater degree).

Accepted Answer

A)  the anteromedial prefrontal cortex 
B)  right temporo-parietal and parietal-frontal systems associated with reconstruction of spatial information 
C)  left temporo-parietal and parieto-frontal systems associated with egocentric spatial reasoning 
D)  the emotional centres of the brain 
A)  the anteromedial prefrontal cortex 
B)  right temporo-parietal and parietal-frontal systems associated with reconstruction of spatial information 
C)  left temporo-parietal and parieto-frontal systems associated with egocentric spatial reasoning 
D)  the emotional centres of the brain

Question 10

What differentiates episodic memory from autobiographical memory?

Accepted Answer

Autobiographical memory is different fro

Question 11

What are encoding/retrieval specificity effects and state-dependent memory effects in the context of episodic memory?

Accepted Answer

Environmental cues can probe for episodi

Question 12

Episodic memory is a form of ________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  autobiographical 
B)  generic 
C)  explicit 
D)  implicit 
A)  autobiographical 
B)  generic 
C)  explicit 
D)  implicit

Question 13

Which circuits of the hippocampus are essential for memory formation? How do they work?

Accepted Answer

Episodic memories are formed in the hipp

Question 14

Damage to the prefrontal cortex results in somewhat disorganized memories where the individual ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  is unable to learn new information 
B)  is unable to forget some old information 
C)  may be able to learn new information but is unable to link that learning to a specific episode 
D)  links the learning to inappropriate/erroneous episodes 
A)  is unable to learn new information 
B)  is unable to forget some old information 
C)  may be able to learn new information but is unable to link that learning to a specific episode 
D)  links the learning to inappropriate/erroneous episodes

Question 15

Godden and Baddeley (1975) presented words to people on land or scuba diving and then tested their memory for the words either on land or scuba diving and found that performance was ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  best when the context was the same 
B)  worst when the context was the same 
C)  always better on land 
D)  always better when scuba diving 
A)  best when the context was the same 
B)  worst when the context was the same 
C)  always better on land 
D)  always better when scuba diving

Question 16

According to Rathbone et al. (2008), the reminiscent bump describes the tendency for ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  older adults to recall events from adolescence and early adulthood more than other events from their past 
B)  older adults to recall events from their distant past more than other events from their adolescence and early adulthood 
C)  young adults to recall events from adolescence and early adulthood more than recent events 
D)  better memories for important events in life 
A)  older adults to recall events from adolescence and early adulthood more than other events from their past 
B)  older adults to recall events from their distant past more than other events from their adolescence and early adulthood 
C)  young adults to recall events from adolescence and early adulthood more than recent events 
D)  better memories for important events in life

Question 17

What is generic memory?

Accepted Answer

Generic memory (sometimes called semanti

Question 18

What did Talarico and Rubin conclude about the difference between flashbulb memories and everyday memories?

Accepted Answer

Talarico and Rubin (2003) found that the

Question 19

Episodic memory is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the occasional retrieval of experienced events accompanied by strong emotions 
B)  the retrieval of personally experienced events accompanied by the feeling of remembering 
C)  the retrieval of important historical events 
D)  the conscious failure to remember an important event 
A)  the occasional retrieval of experienced events accompanied by strong emotions 
B)  the retrieval of personally experienced events accompanied by the feeling of remembering 
C)  the retrieval of important historical events 
D)  the conscious failure to remember an important event

Question 20

Autobiographical memory is different from episodic memory in that ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  autobiographical memory contains both events and factual information, whereas episodic memory consists only of events 
B)  autobiographical memory contains both events and factual information, whereas episodic memory consists of either events or factual information, but not both 
C)  autobiographical memory contains both events and factual information, whereas episodic memory may consist only of factual information 
D)  it cannot be forgotten 
A)  autobiographical memory contains both events and factual information, whereas episodic memory consists only of events 
B)  autobiographical memory contains both events and factual information, whereas episodic memory consists of either events or factual information, but not both 
C)  autobiographical memory contains both events and factual information, whereas episodic memory may consist only of factual information 
D)  it cannot be forgotten

According to Greenwald (1980), autobiographical memory recall is subject to a variety of cognitive biases, which do not include ________.

According to Lisman (1999), how is the hippocampal circuit well suited to store the two main features of episodic memory: sequence and context?

Wildschut et al. (2006) suggest that nostalgia serves at least three functions, which do not include ________.

What is the reminiscence bump? What are the biological, cognitive, and sociocultural explanations for it?

People with hyperthymesia ________.

________ refers to the phenomenon of remembering something that hasn't actually happened before, but with feeling of remembering.

Internal memory cues give rise to ________.

The impairment in people with disrupted episodic memory suggests that a primary purpose of episodic memory is to ________.

Both episodic and generic autobiographical information activates ________ associated with self-reference (but episodic information activates this area to a greater degree).

What differentiates episodic memory from autobiographical memory?

What are encoding/retrieval specificity effects and state-dependent memory effects in the context of episodic memory?

Episodic memory is a form of ________ memory.

Which circuits of the hippocampus are essential for memory formation? How do they work?

Damage to the prefrontal cortex results in somewhat disorganized memories where the individual ________.

Godden and Baddeley (1975) presented words to people on land or scuba diving and then tested their memory for the words either on land or scuba diving and found that performance was ________.

According to Rathbone et al. (2008), the reminiscent bump describes the tendency for ________.

What is generic memory?

What did Talarico and Rubin conclude about the difference between flashbulb memories and everyday memories?

Episodic memory is ________.

Autobiographical memory is different from episodic memory in that ________.

The Study of Memory

Sensory Persistence and Information Persistence

Short-Term Memory and Working Memory

Long-Term Memory

Explicit and Implicit Memory

Generic Memory

Forgetting

Memory Across the Lifespan

Memory and Our Social Selves

Memory and the Law

Memory and the Marketplace

Memory, the Body, and Health

Exceptional Memory, Mnemonics, and Expertise

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Exam 6: Episodic Memory and Autobiographical Memory

According to Greenwald (1980), autobiographical memory recall is subject to a variety of cognitive biases, which do not include ________.

According to Lisman (1999), how is the hippocampal circuit well suited to store the two main features of episodic memory: sequence and context?

Wildschut et al. (2006) suggest that nostalgia serves at least three functions, which do not include ________.

What is the reminiscence bump? What are the biological, cognitive, and sociocultural explanations for it?

People with hyperthymesia ________.

________ refers to the phenomenon of remembering something that hasn't actually happened before, but with feeling of remembering.

Internal memory cues give rise to ________.

The impairment in people with disrupted episodic memory suggests that a primary purpose of episodic memory is to ________.

Both episodic and generic autobiographical information activates ________ associated with self-reference (but episodic information activates this area to a greater degree).

What differentiates episodic memory from autobiographical memory?

What are encoding/retrieval specificity effects and state-dependent memory effects in the context of episodic memory?

Episodic memory is a form of ________ memory.

Which circuits of the hippocampus are essential for memory formation? How do they work?

Damage to the prefrontal cortex results in somewhat disorganized memories where the individual ________.

Godden and Baddeley (1975) presented words to people on land or scuba diving and then tested their memory for the words either on land or scuba diving and found that performance was ________.

According to Rathbone et al. (2008), the reminiscent bump describes the tendency for ________.

What is generic memory?

What did Talarico and Rubin conclude about the difference between flashbulb memories and everyday memories?

Episodic memory is ________.

Autobiographical memory is different from episodic memory in that ________.

The Study of Memory

Sensory Persistence and Information Persistence

Short-Term Memory and Working Memory

Long-Term Memory

Explicit and Implicit Memory

Generic Memory

Forgetting

Memory Across the Lifespan

Memory and Our Social Selves

Memory and the Law

Memory and the Marketplace

Memory, the Body, and Health

Exceptional Memory, Mnemonics, and Expertise

Filters