Question 1

The fact that people can give feeling of knowing judgments that are high and accurate suggests that __________.

Accepted Answer

A) no one is immune to error 
B) metamemory is debunked 
C) relearning can occur 
D) forgetting can be temporary 
A) no one is immune to error 
B) metamemory is debunked 
C) relearning can occur 
D) forgetting can be temporary

Question 2

Which is LEAST associated with false memories?

Accepted Answer

A) semantic associations and script knowledge 
B) DRM task 
C) critical lures 
D) garden path sentences 
A) semantic associations and script knowledge 
B) DRM task 
C) critical lures 
D) garden path sentences

Question 3

Remembering to do some task in the future is called __________.

Accepted Answer

A) prospective memory 
B) cryptomnesia 
C) perspective memory 
D) semantic integration 
A) prospective memory 
B) cryptomnesia 
C) perspective memory 
D) semantic integration

Question 4

Lindsay et al.(2004)report describing a pseudo-event (a childhood story of putting green slime in a teacher's desk)in the context of two "real" events from the person's own childhood.Half were also shown their (real)grade school class picture.They were to come back in a week for further testing.Which describes their result after this one-week delay?

Accepted Answer

A) In the photo group,the "thought did it" percentage went from 30 percent to 70 percent (i.e.,the majority reported the activity as true after the one-week delay). 
B) In the photo group,the "thought did it" percentage remained at 30 percent throughout. 
C) In the nonphoto group,the "thought did it" percentage remained at 15 percent throughout. 
D) In the nonphoto group,the "thought did it" percentage remained at 30 percent throughout. 
A) In the photo group,the "thought did it" percentage went from 30 percent to 70 percent (i.e.,the majority reported the activity as true after the one-week delay). 
B) In the photo group,the "thought did it" percentage remained at 30 percent throughout. 
C) In the nonphoto group,the "thought did it" percentage remained at 15 percent throughout. 
D) In the nonphoto group,the "thought did it" percentage remained at 30 percent throughout.

Question 5

Which is NOT mentioned as a source of memory distortion?

Accepted Answer

A) encoding specificity 
B) source misattribution 
C) misinformation acceptance 
D) overconfidence in memory 
A) encoding specificity 
B) source misattribution 
C) misinformation acceptance 
D) overconfidence in memory

Question 6

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.One week later,the "hit" group reported seeing broken glass to a greater extent than the "contacted" group.This most clearly demonstrates __________.

Accepted Answer

A) overconfidence in memory 
B) the misinformation effect 
C) a memory impairment 
D) the von Restorff effect 
A) overconfidence in memory 
B) the misinformation effect 
C) a memory impairment 
D) the von Restorff effect

Question 7

What is the name for the phenomenon in which a person remembers events that never happened?

Accepted Answer

A) imagination 
B) false memory 
C) cryptomnesia 
D) super-consciousness 
A) imagination 
B) false memory 
C) cryptomnesia 
D) super-consciousness

Question 8

Overconfidence in memory derives from __________.

Accepted Answer

A) poor metamemory 
B) source misattribution 
C) processing fluency 
D) All of the above can lead to overconfidence in memory. 
A) poor metamemory 
B) source misattribution 
C) processing fluency 
D) All of the above can lead to overconfidence in memory.

Question 9

The term for memory for the future is __________.

Accepted Answer

A) source monitoring 
B) inference making 
C) proactive memory 
D) prospective memory 
A) source monitoring 
B) inference making 
C) proactive memory 
D) prospective memory

Question 10

Which is NOT one of Schacter's "seven sins of memory"?

Accepted Answer

A) transfer 
B) transience 
C) blocking 
D) suggestibility 
A) transfer 
B) transience 
C) blocking 
D) suggestibility

Question 11

Cryptomnesia is __________.

Accepted Answer

A) conscious plagiarism 
B) a failure in source monitoring 
C) found after brain damage 
D) unconscious feeling of knowing 
A) conscious plagiarism 
B) a failure in source monitoring 
C) found after brain damage 
D) unconscious feeling of knowing

Question 12

Fiction becoming fact is a result of a problem in __________.

Accepted Answer

A) source monitoring 
B) memory retrieval 
C) feeling of knowing 
D) prospective memory 
A) source monitoring 
B) memory retrieval 
C) feeling of knowing 
D) prospective memory

Question 13

Which of these "sins of memory" is not like the others?

Accepted Answer

A) persistence 
B) transience 
C) blocking 
D) absentmindedness 
A) persistence 
B) transience 
C) blocking 
D) absentmindedness

Question 14

The plastic,malleable state a memory is in when it is retrieved and then stored again is called __________.

Accepted Answer

A) consolidation 
B) reconsolidation 
C) reconstruction 
D) misleading post-event information 
A) consolidation 
B) reconsolidation 
C) reconstruction 
D) misleading post-event information

Question 15

What is the best way to characterize the research concerning the fan effect?

Accepted Answer

A) It is too inconsistent. 
B) It reveals the ways in which concepts are organized and retrieved from memory. 
C) There is no consistent way that everyone processes information. 
D) The more you know,the faster you can remember. 
A) It is too inconsistent. 
B) It reveals the ways in which concepts are organized and retrieved from memory. 
C) There is no consistent way that everyone processes information. 
D) The more you know,the faster you can remember.

Question 16

An example of "blocking" in memory is __________.

Accepted Answer

A) Stanford vs.Cal State 
B) TOT 
C) normalization 
D) misattribution 
A) Stanford vs.Cal State 
B) TOT 
C) normalization 
D) misattribution

Question 17

People's judgments of learning for information they just studied is often very accurate.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The lexical decision stimuli will be the items:
DUCK
GRILL
MANGO
YELLOW
Using these items,how might you test priming on a lexical decision task for words that appeared between two propositions in the same sentence and across two different sentences?

Accepted Answer

To test priming on a lexical decision ta

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT an explanation of infantile amnesia?

Accepted Answer

A) hippocampus development 
B) development of the concept of the self 
C) increase in procedural memories 
D) increased language skills 
A) hippocampus development 
B) development of the concept of the self 
C) increase in procedural memories 
D) increased language skills

Question 20

Bahrick,Bahrick,& Wittlinger produce a study: "Fifty years of names and faces." They report __________.

Accepted Answer

A) excellent preserved recall for names 
B) excellent preserved recall for names despite picture cues 
C) poor levels of recognition for pictures 
D) excellent preservation at a picture-matching task 
A) excellent preserved recall for names 
B) excellent preserved recall for names despite picture cues 
C) poor levels of recognition for pictures 
D) excellent preservation at a picture-matching task

The fact that people can give feeling of knowing judgments that are high and accurate suggests that __________.

Which is LEAST associated with false memories?

Remembering to do some task in the future is called __________.

Which is NOT mentioned as a source of memory distortion?

What is the name for the phenomenon in which a person remembers events that never happened?

Overconfidence in memory derives from __________.

The term for memory for the future is __________.

Which is NOT one of Schacter's "seven sins of memory"?

Cryptomnesia is __________.

Fiction becoming fact is a result of a problem in __________.

Which of these "sins of memory" is not like the others?

The plastic,malleable state a memory is in when it is retrieved and then stored again is called __________.

What is the best way to characterize the research concerning the fan effect?

An example of "blocking" in memory is __________.

People's judgments of learning for information they just studied is often very accurate.

The lexical decision stimuli will be the items: DUCK GRILL MANGO YELLOW Using these items,how might you test priming on a lexical decision task for words that appeared between two propositions in the same sentence and across two different sentences?

Which of the following is NOT an explanation of infantile amnesia?

Bahrick,Bahrick,& Wittlinger produce a study: "Fifty years of names and faces." They report __________.

Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction

Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Sensation and Perception

Attention

Short-Term Working Memory

Learning and Remembering

Knowing

Language

Comprehension: Written and Spoken Language

Decisions, Judgments, and Reasoning

Problem Solving

Cognition and Emotion

Cognitive Development

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Exam 8: Using Knowledge in the Real World

The fact that people can give feeling of knowing judgments that are high and accurate suggests that __________.

Which is LEAST associated with false memories?

Remembering to do some task in the future is called __________.

Which is NOT mentioned as a source of memory distortion?

What is the name for the phenomenon in which a person remembers events that never happened?

Overconfidence in memory derives from __________.

The term for memory for the future is __________.

Which is NOT one of Schacter's "seven sins of memory"?

Cryptomnesia is __________.

Fiction becoming fact is a result of a problem in __________.

Which of these "sins of memory" is not like the others?

The plastic,malleable state a memory is in when it is retrieved and then stored again is called __________.

What is the best way to characterize the research concerning the fan effect?

An example of "blocking" in memory is __________.

People's judgments of learning for information they just studied is often very accurate.

The lexical decision stimuli will be the items: DUCK GRILL MANGO YELLOW Using these items,how might you test priming on a lexical decision task for words that appeared between two propositions in the same sentence and across two different sentences?

Which of the following is NOT an explanation of infantile amnesia?

Bahrick,Bahrick,& Wittlinger produce a study: "Fifty years of names and faces." They report __________.

Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction

Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Sensation and Perception

Attention

Short-Term Working Memory

Learning and Remembering

Knowing

Language

Comprehension: Written and Spoken Language

Decisions, Judgments, and Reasoning

Problem Solving

Cognition and Emotion

Cognitive Development

Filters