Exam 25: Encoding: Getting Information In

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car,she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving the car.Several hours later,Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female.Teresa's experience best illustrates

Incest survivors who lack conscious memories of their sexual abuse may be told they are repressing the memory.This explanation for their lack of abuse memories emphasizes

The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone keypad are not accompanied by alphabetically sequenced letters is most likely due to

An inability to retrieve information learned in the past is called

After hearing stories of things they both had and had not actually experienced with "Mr.Science," preschool children spontaneously recalled him doing things that were only mentioned in the stories.This best illustrates

Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve most clearly indicates that

Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that

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

Although Maria can encode and consciously recall new information,she is unable to consciously recall events that happened prior to the brain damage that she suffered as an adolescent.Maria's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

Retroactive interference refers to the

Becky's car is in the shop and her father has allowed her to use his truck until her car is repaired.Although she has never driven his truck before,she finds that after a few minutes she has the hang of it.This is an example of

Authors and songwriters sometimes think an idea came from their own creative imagination,when in fact they are unintentionally plagiarizing something they earlier read or heard.This best illustrates

When retrieving memories of a past event,we often fill in memory gaps with guesses about details.The fact that these guessed details are then incorporated into our memory of that event is most relevant to appreciating the importance of

Proactive interference refers to the

One child who participated in a memory experiment falsely remembered that he once went to the hospital because he had caught his finger in a mousetrap.His false memory best illustrated the impact of

After attending group therapy sessions for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse,Karen mistakenly remembered details from others' traumatic life stories as part of her own life history.This best illustrates the dangers of

Arnold so easily remembers his old girlfriend's phone number that he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend's number.Arnold's difficulty best illustrates

We are unable to consciously attend to most of the sights and sounds that are continually bombarding us.This fact most clearly contributes to

Déjà vu refers to the

One explanation for the famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve involves the gradual loss of