Question 1
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Autobiographical memory research shows that a person’s brain is more extensively activated when
viewing photos
C !
the person took himself or herself.
the person has never seen before.
of familiar places.
the person has seen before.
Question 2
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For most adults over age 40, the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for
childhood and middle age.
childhood and adolescence.
young adulthood and middle age.
C !
adolescence and young adulthood.
Question 3
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Asking people to recall the most influential events that happened during their college careers shows
that__________in people’s lives appear to be particularly memorable.
C !
transition points
the freshman year
trauma-based experiences
family-centered challenges
Question 4
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Stanny and Johnson’s “weapons focus” experiment, investigating memory for crime scenes, found that
C !
the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event.
the presence of a weapon enhances memory for all parts of the event.
the presence of a weapon has no effect on memory for the event.
the threat of a weapon causes people to focus their attention away from the weapon
itself.
Question 5
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A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that
C !
extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate.
rehearsal cannot account for them.
people’s confidence in a memory predicts its accuracy (high confidence = high
accuracy).
they are permanent and resist forgetting.
Question 6
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The idea that we remember life events better because we encounter the information over and over in what
we read, see on TV, and talk about with other people is called the
life-narrative hypothesis.
C !
narrative rehearsal hypothesis.
cognitive hypothesis.
reminiscence hypothesis.
Question 7
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According to the______approach to memory, what people report as memories is based on what actually
happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge, experiences, and expectations.
source
event-specific
misinformation
C !
constructive
Question 8
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The “telephone game” is often played by children. One child creates a story and whispers it to a second
child, who does the same to a third child, and so on. When the last child recites the story to the group, his
or her reproduction of the story is generally shorter than the original and contains many omissions and
inaccuracies. This game shows how memory is a__________process.
narrative-rehearsal
consequentiality based
life-narrative
C !
constructive
Question 9
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The repeated reproduction technique used in memory studies involves
the same participants remembering some information for as many trials as it takes to
recall all of the information correctly.
different groups of participants remembering some information across different periods
of time after learning the information.
C !
the same participants remembering some information at longer and longer intervals
after learning the information.
the same participants recalling some information many times but, each time, receiving
different retrieval cues to assist their recall.
Question 10
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Wei has allergy symptoms. He has gone to his regular doctor and an allergy specialist, but he wasn’t
given a prescription by either doctor. Instead, he was advised to buy an over-the-counter medicine. While
he was in the specialist’s waiting area, he read a magazine where he saw three ads for an allergy medicine
called SneezeLess. A week later, in a drug store, Wei says to his brother, “My doctor says SneezeLess
works great. I’ll buy that one.” Wei and his doctor never discussed SneezeLess. Wei has fallen victim to
which of the following errors?
Schema confusion
C !
Source monitoring
Recovered memory
MPI
Question 11
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Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as
repeated recall.
C !
cryptoamnesia.
narrative rehearsal.
repeated reproduction.
Question 12
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Much research has been dedicated to improving the reliability of eyewitness testimony. One finding
reveals that when constructing a lineup,
Y Answered
increasing similarity between “fillers” and a suspect leads to an increased level of
erroneous identification of innocent people.
Correct Answer
increasing similarity between “fillers” and a suspect leads to an increased level of
missed identification of some guilty suspects.
decreasing the number of fillers from 6 to 3 actually increases the rate of false positive
identifications.
increasing the number of fillers from 5 to 7 actually decreases the rate of false positive
identifications.
Question 13
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__________occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly
stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.
Observer perspective
Automatic narrative
Prospective memory
C !
Pragmatic inference
Question 14
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Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup.
Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big
cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen
source memory.
scan technique.
C !
schema.
script.
Question 15
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A script is a type of schema that also includes knowledge of
Correct Answer
a sequence of actions.
information stored in both semantic and episodic memory.
items appropriate to a particular setting.
Y Answered
what is involved in a particular experience.
Question 16
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Jackie went to the grocery store to pick up yogurt, bread, and apples. First, she picked up a hand basket
for carrying her groceries, and then she searched the store. After finding what she needed, she stood in a
check-out line. Then, the cashier put her items in a plastic bag, and soon after, Jackie left the store. As
readers of this event, we understand that Jackie paid for the groceries, even though it wasn’t mentioned,
because we are relying on a grocery store _____.
misattribution
schema
C !
script
narrative
Question 17
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In the “word list” false memory experiment where several students incorrectly remembered hearing the
wordsleep, false memory occurs because of
verbatim recall.
C !
constructive memory processes.
the effect of scripts.
cryptoamnesia
Question 18
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The misinformation effect occurs when a person’s memory for an event is modified by misleading
information presented
all of the above
before the event.
C !
after the event.
during the event.
Question 19
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Memories of the past that have been pushed out of a person’s consciousness are considered to be
________.
false
C !
repressed
flashbulbs
illusory
Question 20
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Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, Harry believes that drinking dandelion tea would improve his
long-term memory because he saw several news stories and articles about it online. What is Harry
experiencing?
Misinformation effect
Source monitoring error
Y Answered
Pragmatic inference
Correct Answer
Illusory truth effect
