Exam 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

Which statement below is NOT true, based on the results of memory research?

Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?

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

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

Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?

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.

Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen

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 misleading post-event information

Which of the following is key to the illusory truth effect?

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

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

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?

Explain why it is better that we cannot remember every single thing that we experience.

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

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 of __________ on memory.

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

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

Arkes and Freedman's "baseball game" experiment asked participants to indicate whether the following sentence was present in a passage they had previously read about events in a game: "The batter was safe at first." Their findings showed inaccurate memories involved

A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that

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