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Question 41

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Why is retroactive interference relevant to the post-event misinformation effect?

A) Recently learned material may interfere with the older memories.
B) Information gathered prior to an event may somehow bias the way you perceive the event.
C) More vivid information will be recalled more accurately than less vivid information.
D) Eyewitnesses are less confident than they should be.

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Question 42

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Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

A) I remember receiving the letter of acceptance from my college.
B) I remember how to make spinach lasagna.
C) I know that daffodils bloom in the spring.
D) I know that Spanish has two different words for "to be."

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Psychologists in the United States have conducted research on identifying faces of people from different ethnic groups. This research shows that

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

The term autobiographical memory generally refers to

Suppose that students in a research study see a list of English words. Which of the following would be the best way for the researchers to test implicit memory later on in the session?

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

Suppose that Peter is an expert in gymnastics. You would expect to find that

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

Imagine that you have to turn the clocks ahead for daylight saving time. You manage to recall the rather complex system by which you can advance the clock in your car. This skill is an example of your

Chapter 5 discussed a study on the own-ethnicity bias. The study was conducted in Great Britain, where many residents are South Asian. According to this study,

What general conclusion can we draw about our memory accuracy for important events in our lives ("flashbulb memories") ?

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

What can we conclude about the self-reference effect?

Suppose that your cousin believes that he has a vivid memory for the details surrounding the death of a famous person. This phenomenon is often called

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

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"?

Compared to control-group participants, people with anterograde amnesia are likely to

Suppose that you look at a new term in a foreign language, and this item is then stored in your memory. Cognitive psychologists call this process

Chapter 5 discusses several variables that can influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. According to this discussion, eyewitness testimony is most likely to be accurate when