Exam 7: Autobiographical Memory

Joseph, an American from Chicago, was 10 years old when he heard the news of 9/11 in his fourth-grade class.The data suggest that when asked about this memory now, Joseph will:

Adam, a valet, describes what he usually does when he parks a car at work.Adam is retrieving:

Simcock and Hayne (2002) found that children only remembered those objects for which they possessed the vocabulary for when they witnessed the event.Which view of childhood amnesia does this support?

Observer memories are:

Explain the results of Weaver's (1993) study comparing an ordinary memory and a flashbulb memory.

Field memories are:

Dickson, Pillemer, and Bruehl (2011) found a ______ bump for events that were surprising and therefore not part of the person's lifetime period

In a study on flashbulb memory it was found that:

Weaver (1993) conducted a study comparing an ordinary memory and a flashbulb memory.Weaver's students wrote down as many details as they could remember from the ordinary interaction with their roommate and their memory of hearing the news of the start of the Gulf War (1991).He found that by the end of the semester, confidence was higher for the flashbulb memory, but the accuracy was equivalent for both memories.

In Conway's theory of autobiographical memory, specific events refer to episodic memories.

According to your textbook, which is considered the best explanation of childhood amnesia?

Daselaar et al. (2008) used a standard cue-word technique, that is, participants heard a word and were asked to think of the first autobiographical memory that came to mind.During retrieval, an fMRI machine monitored the participants' brains.The fMRI technique allows the researchers to obtain a detailed map of where activity in the brain is taking place.It showed that:

Berntsen, Staugaard, and Sorensen (in press) asked participants to engage in sound-location task which involved determining if two sounds were being played to the same ear or one to each ear.They found that novel sounds were less likely to induce involuntary memories.

When adults do remember events from before the age of four, those memories tend to be:

Explain the psychodynamic view of childhood amnesia.

Herz (2004) showed that autobiographical memories produced by odor cues:

Field memories are ______ and visual memories in which we see the memory as if we were looking at the event through our own eyes.

The psychodynamic view of childhood amnesia attempts to explain the phenomenon by:

Willander and Larsson (2007) conducted a study on the role odors play in autobiographical memory.They found that:

Zora remembers the details of where and what she was doing when she heard the news that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.This kind of memory is often referred to as: