Exam 5: Long-Term Memory

Eyewitness testimony is most likely accurate accurate when

Chapter 5 discussed research about anxiety disorders and memory accuracy for words related to anxiety.According to this research,

Which of the following students has the best understanding about the inconsistent research results on encoding specificity?

Which of the following eyewitnesses would be most likely to accurately identify an attacker?

Suppose that you have been looking at a magazine that contains a number of photos of attractive desserts,including one of a lemon meringue pie.Later,someone asks you what your favorite dessert is,and you reply "lemon meringue pie," you actually like other desserts equally well,though they were not among those original photos.You have experienced

Your memory for the issues and events that are related to your own life is called

Chapter 5 discusses a study by Foley and her colleagues,in which participants listened to a list of concrete nouns.Students in one group were told to visualize each object; students in another group were told to imagine themselves using the object.One important finding was that

You read in a psychology journal that the authors of an article have conducted a meta-analysis.You conclude that they have

Suppose that you have spent some time thinking about how you are going to discuss a certain issue with a friend.Later,you try to decide whether you had actually discussed this issue,or whether you simply imagined doing so.This is an example of

Suppose that you are trying to recall a friend's phone number,so you repeat it over and over to yourself without analyzing it or giving it a meaning.According to the levels-of-processing approach,this activity would be categorized as

Which of the following students' statements is the best summary of the consistency bias?

Freyd proposed that the concept of betrayal trauma can explain why people may forget about their own experience with sexual abuse during childhood.Which of the following statements would be most consistent with this perspective?

Suppose that a friend tells you that her introductory psychology textbook says you should study for a test in the same room where you will take the test,because of the effects of context.Your most informed response would be

The Pollyanna Principle is consistent with which theme of the textbook?

People are more likely to make errors in eyewitness testimony

Several students are discussing the controversy about recovered memory and false memory.Which of the following students provides the best summary of the "recovered memory perspective"?

Researchers have developed several explanations for the observation that people recall information more accurately if they try to connect that information with themselves.Chapter 5 noted that one likely explanation is that people are more likely

According to the research on the own-ethnicity bias,

Suppose that you hear a guest lecturer who says,"We must remember that expertise is typically context specific." Another way of stating this point is that

Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary about the emotions associated with events that occurred in the past?