Exam 8: Using Knowledge in the Real World

In the leading questions/memory distortion work by Loftus,people were shown a video of a car crash and then asked how fast the cars were going when they hit/smashed/collided/bumped/contacted each other.The between-group difference in the immediate report of the speeds the cars were traveling (e.g.,across the smashed and contacted groups)likely indicates __________.

Spontaneous memories are strongly triggered by __________.

Source monitoring refers to the ease with which something is processed or comes to mind.

The inability to remember life events before two to four years of age is called __________.

Which is NOT a "sin of omission" (Schacter,1999)?

Which of the following is NOT an adequate account of the reminiscence bump?

Prospective memory __________.

Reporting having seen a yield sign in a video of a car crash (when no sign was present)after being asked a question that mentioned a yield sign (e.g.,"Did the car slow down at the yield sign prior to the accident?")most clearly demonstrates __________.

Propositional representations reflect the gist of what was encountered before.

What is a particularly effective cue for eliciting spontaneous autobiographical memories?

When you forget something,but feel like retrieval is imminent,this is called __________.

Metamemory is __________.

A memory for an event that never happened is called a(n)_______________.

The existence of infantile amnesia illustrates that __________.

Suggestibility inflation is one of the seven sins of memory.

The memory unit that codes meaning is called a(n)__________________.

What is the name for the phenomenon that people tend to have better memories for their lives around the age of twenty than would otherwise be expected?

In the Bransford & Franks (1971)experiment,people incorrectly reported recognizing the "three" phrase "The ants ate the sweet jelly that was on the table" as an "old" sentence despite the fact that that particular set of propositions had never been presented together in one sentence.This type of error illustrates __________.

What is the best conclusion that we can make about human memory?

What are some of the explanations for infantile amnesia,and what implications do they have for how our sense of self changes over time (if at all)?