Exam 25: Encoding: Getting Information In

Familiarity with an ongoing situation without any idea of where you experienced it before contributes to

Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day,he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day.This poor memory best illustrates

The reports of children who are interviewed by officials regarding an alleged incident of sexual abuse are most likely to be unreliable if

Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse that incorporate errors triggered by a therapist's leading questions best illustrate

The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called

Rebecca is taking her psychology exam but cannot recall the information needed to answer the questions.She is experiencing forgetting.Give possible reasons she may have forgotten the information.

Retroactive interference can be considered

Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions,Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie.His mistaken recall best illustrates

Professor Maslova has so many memories of former students that she has difficulty remembering the names of new students.The professor's difficulty best illustrates

Having read a story once,certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before.They have most likely suffered damage to the

After having brain surgery to stop severe seizures,Henry Molaison could recall events he experienced prior to the surgery but was unable to form new conscious memories.Molaison's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

Harry Bahrick observed that three years after people completed a Spanish course,they had forgotten much of the vocabulary they had learned.This finding indicates that information is lost while it is

Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case.Their memory failure best illustrates

When Loftus and Palmer asked observers of a filmed car accident how fast the vehicles were going when they "smashed" into each other,the observers developed memories of the accident that

Previously learned information often facilitates our learning of new information.This phenomenon is called

Donald Thompson was an initial suspect in a rape case.The rape victim confused her memories of Thompson and the actual rapist because she had seen Thompson's image on TV shortly before she was attacked.The victim's false recollection best illustrates

Research on memory construction indicates that

Among contemporary memory researchers,increasing numbers think that ________ rarely,if ever,occurs.

After falling in love with Jill,Derrick verbally exaggerated how much he had liked her the first time they ever met.Later,Derrick's memory of his first impressions of Jill became increasingly more positive.This best illustrates

Many of the experimental participants who were asked how fast two cars in a filmed traffic accident were going when they smashed into each other subsequently recalled seeing broken glass at the scene of the accident.This experiment best illustrated