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PSY 352 Week 3 Quiz Memory and Autobiographical Details
- 1. PSY 352 Week 3 Quiz NEW Check this A+ tutorial guideline at http://www.assignmentcloud.com/psy-352-ash/psy-352- week-3-quiz-new For more classes visit http://www.assignmentcloud.com PSY 352 Week 3 Quiz NEW Question 1 If an eyewitness to a crime experiences a weapon focus, he or she will be: more likely to remember information about the gun, but less likely to remember what the person is wearing more likely to remember what the person is wearing, but less likely to remember information about the gun more likely to remember peripheral details, but less likely to remember central details equally likely to remember peripheral and central details Question 2
- 2. When recalling an autobiographical memory, Conway’s self- memory systems says that: we access sensory-perceptual details at the level of lifetime periods we reconstruct the event starting from event-specific knowledge, then general events, and finally lifetimeperiods we reconstruct the event starting from lifetime periods, then general events, and finally accessing event specific knowledge retrieval of autobiographical memories is fast and accurate Question 3 Which of these autobiographical memory research techniques allows for firmer conclusions about memoryaccuracy? targeted event recall diary technique cue word technique public record assessment
- 3. Question 4 People often tout the power of smells as cues for autobiographical memories. How does empirical researchstack 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 5 One research strategy for investigating childhood memories (in order to check and verify the accuracy ofremembered childhood events) is to: investigate participants' pasts to confirm the events they remember
- 4. ask about salient events that can be easily corroborated by other parties stage events that can be asked about later on there is no way to corroborate any childhood memory. Question 6 The 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 7 In their study of early childhood memories, Usher and Neisser (1993) found that: family stories and photographs helped the memories of all children
- 5. family stories and photographs hurt the memories of all children family stories and photographs hurt the memories of children four and older family stories and photographs hurt the memories of children three years and younger Question 8 Relating 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 9
- 6. The "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 Question 10 Williams (1994) attempted to corroborate individual cases of lost traumatic memories by finding individualswho had been admitted 17 years earlier to sexual abuse clinics and interviewing them about their current knowledge of the experience. The findings are interpreted as evidence ____ the reality of repressed then recovered memories because __________: for; over 1/3 failed to remember the event for which they had been admitted. for; all of them failed to remember the event for which they had been admitted.
- 7. against; all of them vividly remembered the event for which they had been admitted. Question 11 All of the following statements about the misinformation effect are true except: It is an example of the memory sin of suggestibility. It is an example of the memory sin of misattribution. It is an example of retroactive interference. It is an example of the memory sin of bias. Question 12 Marian and Neisser (2000) conducted a study in which Russian immigrants to the United States were givenRussian or English cue words for autobiographical memories. The results of this
- 8. study provided a conceptual replication of this classic memory phenomenon in the context of autobiographical memory: a levels of processing effect the beneficial effect of organization on memory encoding specificity a dissociation between implicit and explicit memory Question 13 According to the Innocence Project, eyewitness misidentification plays a key role in ___ of the cases of wrongful conviction in which DNA evidence later led to exoneration. about 25% about 50% about 75% all Question 14
- 9. The reminiscence bump refers to the finding that ________ and seems to apply ________. people show a standard forgetting curve for the last several years of their autobiography; only to episodicmemory people show a standard forgetting curve for the last several years of their autobiography; to both episodicand semantic memory people tend to recall a disproportionate number of events from between ages 10 to 30; only to episodicmemory people tend to recall a disproportionate number of events from between ages 10 to 30; to both episodic and semantic memory Question 15 Garry and Wade compared the effects of photos and narratives in producing false memories and found that: both were about equally likely to lead to false remembering. neither one led to much false remembering. narratives led to more false remembering than did photos.
- 10. photos led to more false remembering than did narratives.