Question 1

Describe the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure.

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Used to induce False memories

Question 2

The memory researcher, Elizabeth Loftus, has argued that:

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A) essentially that almost all memories are fundamentally false. 
B) correspondence between an original event and the recollective experience will never match. 
C) memory psychologists should not testify in courts of law. 
D) most "recovered" repressed memories are actually false. 
A) essentially that almost all memories are fundamentally false. 
B) correspondence between an original event and the recollective experience will never match. 
C) memory psychologists should not testify in courts of law. 
D) most "recovered" repressed memories are actually false.

Question 3

Research shows that the cognitive interview:

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A) can bias witness reports in such a way as to guarantee accurate line-up performance. 
B) is an effective method for creating false memories. 
C) leads to increased accuracy, although the amount does not increase. 
D) boosts the amount recalled by a willing eyewitness by about 30% 
A) can bias witness reports in such a way as to guarantee accurate line-up performance. 
B) is an effective method for creating false memories. 
C) leads to increased accuracy, although the amount does not increase. 
D) boosts the amount recalled by a willing eyewitness by about 30%

Question 4

Retrieval Active suppression means that:

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A) people fail to rehearse painful items. 
B) people may deliberately force themselves to not remember the item. 
C) hypnotic suggestions are used to induce false memories. 
D) the false memory induction procedure will be unable to work. 
A) people fail to rehearse painful items. 
B) people may deliberately force themselves to not remember the item. 
C) hypnotic suggestions are used to induce false memories. 
D) the false memory induction procedure will be unable to work.

Question 5

The failure-to-rehearse mechanism for repression means that:

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A) painful events are not attended to. 
B) painful events, once encoded, are not consciously rehearsed. 
C) painful events are rehearsed so much that they lose their connection to retrieval cues. 
D) actors will forget their lines if they have not memorized them. 
A) painful events are not attended to. 
B) painful events, once encoded, are not consciously rehearsed. 
C) painful events are rehearsed so much that they lose their connection to retrieval cues. 
D) actors will forget their lines if they have not memorized them.

Question 6

The ______ hypothesis is a theory that explains the misinformation effect.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The ______ hypothesis is a theory that...

Question 7

Anderson et al. (2004) examined retrieval active suppression using an fMRI scanner.They found that:

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A) retrieval active suppression did not occur when participants felt ill at ease in the scanner. 
B) retrieval suppression was associated with regions in the occipital lobe. 
C) retrieval suppression was associated with a decrease in activity in the hippocampus. 
D) retrieval suppression was associated with an increase in activity in the hippocampus. 
A) retrieval active suppression did not occur when participants felt ill at ease in the scanner. 
B) retrieval suppression was associated with regions in the occipital lobe. 
C) retrieval suppression was associated with a decrease in activity in the hippocampus. 
D) retrieval suppression was associated with an increase in activity in the hippocampus.

Question 8

In the false memory induction procedure, the experimenters ask participants:

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A) to engage in "trance writing." 
B) if they have ever experienced known false memories. 
C) about their performance on DRM lists. 
D) about particular events from their childhood, which in fact, never happened. 
A) to engage in "trance writing." 
B) if they have ever experienced known false memories. 
C) about their performance on DRM lists. 
D) about particular events from their childhood, which in fact, never happened.

Question 9

Some psychotherapeutic techniques, such as "guided imagery" may lead to:

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A) the formation of flashbulb memories. 
B) the induction of childhood amnesia. 
C) participants realizing that many of their memories are false. 
D) the formation of false memories. 
A) the formation of flashbulb memories. 
B) the induction of childhood amnesia. 
C) participants realizing that many of their memories are false. 
D) the formation of false memories.

Question 10

Repression can be defined as the forgetting of highly emotional memories, usually from childhood.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

One of the advantages of hypnosis is that:

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A) it can lead to a reduction in pain in people suffering from chronic pain. 
B) it makes more suggestible people less suggestible. 
C) it increases the threshold for false memories. 
D) it reactivates repressed memories. 
A) it can lead to a reduction in pain in people suffering from chronic pain. 
B) it makes more suggestible people less suggestible. 
C) it increases the threshold for false memories. 
D) it reactivates repressed memories.

Question 12

If you false report a memory of an imagined event as really happening, your false memory has arisen because of Source-monitoring problems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Smith and Moynan (2008) found that when they supplied the category names to participants at time of test, participants forgot a great number of items from categories they had not recalled earlier.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

A participant is given a list of word "web, insect, bug, fright, fly, arachnid, crawl, tarantula, poison, bite, creepy, animal, ugly, feelers, small." The participants are then asked to recall the words from the list.Which of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

A) Because the words are emotional, false memories are unlikely to occur. 
B) There are so few words that false memories will only occur in amnesiacs. 
C) False memories will occur for several of the words. 
D) The word "spider" could be considered a critical intrusion. 
A) Because the words are emotional, false memories are unlikely to occur. 
B) There are so few words that false memories will only occur in amnesiacs. 
C) False memories will occur for several of the words. 
D) The word "spider" could be considered a critical intrusion.

Question 15

Elizabeth Loftus developed the false memory induction procedure because:

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A) she was interested in working memory. 
B) she knew that people would criticize her misinformation paradigm for its limited ecological validity. 
C) she was interested with devising an experimental model for real-world false memories. 
D) she wanted to prove that repressed memories really do exist. 
A) she was interested in working memory. 
B) she knew that people would criticize her misinformation paradigm for its limited ecological validity. 
C) she was interested with devising an experimental model for real-world false memories. 
D) she wanted to prove that repressed memories really do exist.

Question 16

The term "false memory" refers to:

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A) perceptual information that is mistaken for lexical memory. 
B) memories that people have which do not correspond to events as they actually happened. 
C) memories that correspond to encoding rather than retrieval. 
D) memories that are inhibited and seldom are retained. 
A) perceptual information that is mistaken for lexical memory. 
B) memories that people have which do not correspond to events as they actually happened. 
C) memories that correspond to encoding rather than retrieval. 
D) memories that are inhibited and seldom are retained.

Question 17

Scoboria, Mazzoni, and Josee (2008) suggested to participants that they had gotten sick eating peach yogurt as a child.When participants returned the lab one week later, the researchers found that:

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A) participants falsely recalled the earlier event. 
B) participants expressed an aversion to peach yogurt. 
C) participants requested peach yogurt. 
D) participants could not remember the hypnotized event. 
A) participants falsely recalled the earlier event. 
B) participants expressed an aversion to peach yogurt. 
C) participants requested peach yogurt. 
D) participants could not remember the hypnotized event.

Question 18

Research on hypnosis and memory suggests that:

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A) under hypnosis, memory is 100% accurate. 
B) hypnosis increases the likelihood of false memories. 
C) there is no relation between the amount of recalled material and hypnosis. 
D) when done properly, hypnosis eliminates childhood amnesia. 
A) under hypnosis, memory is 100% accurate. 
B) hypnosis increases the likelihood of false memories. 
C) there is no relation between the amount of recalled material and hypnosis. 
D) when done properly, hypnosis eliminates childhood amnesia.

Question 19

In the trace-impairment view of the misinformation effect,

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A) the misinformation creates a second memory and participants have source-monitoring difficulties. 
B) the misinformation is detected and removed by retrieval active suppression. 
C) fuzzy-trace models provide a means for improving memory performance. 
D) the misinformation replaces the memory for the original event. 
A) the misinformation creates a second memory and participants have source-monitoring difficulties. 
B) the misinformation is detected and removed by retrieval active suppression. 
C) fuzzy-trace models provide a means for improving memory performance. 
D) the misinformation replaces the memory for the original event.

Question 20

In the misinformation effect, post-event information can:

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A) lead to greater accuracy in recall. 
B) mislead or distort the memory of the original event. 
C) reduce categorization errors in participants. 
D) lead to false memories of items not in the category. 
A) lead to greater accuracy in recall. 
B) mislead or distort the memory of the original event. 
C) reduce categorization errors in participants. 
D) lead to false memories of items not in the category.

Describe the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure.

The memory researcher, Elizabeth Loftus, has argued that:

Research shows that the cognitive interview:

Retrieval Active suppression means that:

The failure-to-rehearse mechanism for repression means that:

The ______ hypothesis is a theory that explains the misinformation effect.

Anderson et al. (2004) examined retrieval active suppression using an fMRI scanner.They found that:

In the false memory induction procedure, the experimenters ask participants:

Some psychotherapeutic techniques, such as "guided imagery" may lead to:

Repression can be defined as the forgetting of highly emotional memories, usually from childhood.

One of the advantages of hypnosis is that:

If you false report a memory of an imagined event as really happening, your false memory has arisen because of Source-monitoring problems.

Smith and Moynan (2008) found that when they supplied the category names to participants at time of test, participants forgot a great number of items from categories they had not recalled earlier.

A participant is given a list of word "web, insect, bug, fright, fly, arachnid, crawl, tarantula, poison, bite, creepy, animal, ugly, feelers, small." The participants are then asked to recall the words from the list.Which of the following statements is true?

Elizabeth Loftus developed the false memory induction procedure because:

The term "false memory" refers to:

Scoboria, Mazzoni, and Josee (2008) suggested to participants that they had gotten sick eating peach yogurt as a child.When participants returned the lab one week later, the researchers found that:

Research on hypnosis and memory suggests that:

In the trace-impairment view of the misinformation effect,

In the misinformation effect, post-event information can:

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Exam 8: False Memory

Describe the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure.

The memory researcher, Elizabeth Loftus, has argued that:

Research shows that the cognitive interview:

Retrieval Active suppression means that:

The failure-to-rehearse mechanism for repression means that:

The ______ hypothesis is a theory that explains the misinformation effect.

Anderson et al. (2004) examined retrieval active suppression using an fMRI scanner.They found that:

In the false memory induction procedure, the experimenters ask participants:

Some psychotherapeutic techniques, such as "guided imagery" may lead to:

Repression can be defined as the forgetting of highly emotional memories, usually from childhood.

One of the advantages of hypnosis is that:

If you false report a memory of an imagined event as really happening, your false memory has arisen because of Source-monitoring problems.

Smith and Moynan (2008) found that when they supplied the category names to participants at time of test, participants forgot a great number of items from categories they had not recalled earlier.

A participant is given a list of word "web, insect, bug, fright, fly, arachnid, crawl, tarantula, poison, bite, creepy, animal, ugly, feelers, small." The participants are then asked to recall the words from the list.Which of the following statements is true?

Elizabeth Loftus developed the false memory induction procedure because:

The term "false memory" refers to:

Scoboria, Mazzoni, and Josee (2008) suggested to participants that they had gotten sick eating peach yogurt as a child.When participants returned the lab one week later, the researchers found that:

Research on hypnosis and memory suggests that:

In the trace-impairment view of the misinformation effect,

In the misinformation effect, post-event information can:

Introduction to the Study of Memory

Memory and the Brain

Working Memory

Episodic Memory

Semantic Memory

Visual Memory

Autobiographical Memory

Metamemory

Memory Disorders

Memory in Childhood

Memory in Older Adults

Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency

Filters