Research in everyday memory issues is usually higher in

Cognitive Psychology

Question 1Research in everyday memory issues is usually higher in _______ and lower in _______ than typical laboratory memory research.

 

  ecological validity; internal validity

 

  internal validity; ecological validity

 

  internal validity; external validity

 

  ecological validity; external validity

 

 Question 2The results of laboratory studies of illusory memory indicate that:

 

  participants often consciously recollect the theme words around which each list is constructed, even

 

though these words were never presented.

 

  participants don’t generally recollect that the theme word had been presented; they just KNOW that it was presented.

 

  participants often recognized that the theme words as having been in the lists but rarely recalled those theme

 

words.

 

  false memories can not be created in a list learning paradigm.

 

 

 

Question 3The Proust phenomenon is:

 

  the power of odors to elicit memories that are especially old and vivid

 

  the ability of odors to generate more detailed memories

 

  using olfactory odors to generate autobiographical facts

 

  the ability of odors to generate very early memories in life

 

 Question 4Which of these is an example of autobiographical memory?

 

  Dan remembers his first date.

 

  Susan plans for the two papers she has to write this week.

 

  Zoe recalls that her mom hates it when she bites her nails.

 

  Brant tells someone that he has season tickets to his college’s games.

 

 Question 5Wang (2006) compared the early recall of Taiwanese and U.S. adults in terms of the age of their early

 

childhood recollections and the degree of autonomy reflected in the memories. She found that U.S. participants

 

had ____ memories than Taiwanese participants, and that memories of U.S. participants were ____ likely to reflect autonomy.

 

  earlier; more

 

  earlier; less

 

  later; more

 

  later; less

 

 Question 6The phenomenon of imagination inflation:

 

  is an instance in which the less a memory is imagined, the more real it seems.

 

  is an instance in which the more a memory is imagined, the more real it seems

 

  is present only in young children.

 

  only works in a laboratory setting.

 

 Question 7Which of these autobiographical memory research techniques was introduced by the same individual who came up with the statistical technique of correlation?

 

  cue-word technique

 

  targeted event recall

 

  diary technique

 

  flashbulb memories

 

Question 8Nash, Wadem, and Brewer (2009) investigated what they termed the doctored evidence effect and propose all but one of these as a possible source of the effect. Which one did they not propose?

 

  imagination

 

  familiarity

 

  credibility

 

  elaboration

 

The answer can be found in Section 8.3 Illusory Memories.

 

Question 9Currently, flashbulb memories seem to be explained by:

 

  encoding specificity

 

  special memory mechanisms due to the emotion involved

 

  the Now Print! Theory

 

  the intensification of basic memory mechanisms by emotion

 

 Question 10All of these are typically a component of a flashbulb memory except for:

 

  what you were doing at the time

 

  what you were wearing that day

 

  what you did next

 

  how you felt when you heard

 

 Question 11Autobiographical memory helps us to organize, reflect on, and think through important life events.  This                                      assertion relates to which function of autobiographical memory?

 

  informational

 

  communicative

 

  directive

 

  emotional

 

 Question 12Relating details of personally experienced events makes us seem more believable and truthful, and tends to make us more persuasive. This assertion relates to which function of autobiographical memory?

 

  emotional

 

  informational

 

  communicative

 

  directive

 

 Question 13People often tout the power of smells as cues for autobiographical memories. How does empirical research

 

stack up on this issue?

 

  Olfactory cues produce more detailed memories than do non-olfactory cues.

 

  Olfactory cues produce more recent memories than do non-olfactory cues.

 

  Olfactory cues produce more vivid memories than do non-olfactory cues.

 

  Olfactory cues tend to produce flashbulb memories.

 

 Question 14Which of these autobiographical memory research techniques allows a researcher to plot the autobiographical                         retention function?

 

  cue-word technique

 

  targeted event recall

 

  diary technique

 

  flashbulb memories

 

 Question 15The “general events” level of representation in autobiographical memory bears a strong resemblance to:

 

  the subordinate level of category representation

 

  the superordinate level of category representation

 

  the basic level of category representation

 

  the notion of an exemplar in category representation

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