Question 1

Which statement below is NOT true,based on the results of memory research?

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A)  Suggestion can create false memories for events that occurred when a person was a young child.
B)  Suggestion can create false memories for an event that a person has experienced just recently.
C)  Although eyewitness testimony is often faulty,people who have just viewed a videotape of a crime are quite accurate at picking the "perpetrator" from a lineup.
D)  Many miscarriages of justice have occurred based on faulty eyewitness testimony.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true of the cognitive interview technique?

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A)  Police ask witnesses questions and have them rate their confidence level in their recollections.
B)  Police offer positive reinforcement to witnesses (e.g. ,"Good,that makes sense.") when the witnesses give information consistent with what is in the police file.
C)  Police allow witnesses to talk with a minimum of interruption from the officer.
D)  Police start their interview with simple filler questions to make the witnesses feel comfortable.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 3

Loftus and Palmer's "car-crash films" experiment described in the text shows how a seemingly minor word change can produce a change in a person's memory report.In this study,the MPI was (were) the word(s)

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A)  "fast."
B)  "smashed."
C)  "miles per hour."
D)  "car crash."E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 4

Suppose a friend tells you she has such a vivid memory of a personal event that it seems like a photograph.She wonders aloud about these kinds of memories and how they work.Explain to her the nature of flashbulb memories and what is known about them.

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Question 5

The "wedding reception" false memory experiment shows that false memories can be explained as a product of familiarity and

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A)  retroactive interference.
B)  consequentiality.
C)  source misattribution.
D)  confabulation.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 6

Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the

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A)  misinformation effect.
B)  familiarity effect.
C)  constructive nature of memory.
D)  reminiscence bump.E) All of the above
F) None of the above C

Question 7

In the "word list" false memory experiment where several students incorrectly remembered hearing the word sleep,false memory occurs because of

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A)  constructive memory processes.
B)  verbatim recall.
C)  the effect of scripts.
D)  cryptomnesiaE) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?

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A)  It is vivid memory for emotional events.
B)  It is vivid,highly accurate memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event.
C)  It is memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event that remains especially vivid but not necessarily accurate over time.
D)  It is vivid,highly accurate memory for emotional events.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 9

The conclusion to be drawn from the man named Shereshevskii whose abnormal brain functioning gave him virtually limitless word-for-word memory is that having memory like a video recorder

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A)  is largely a blessing because no event would be erased.
B)  is an advantage because it eliminates "selective" recording (remembering some events and forgetting others) ,which provides no useful service to humans.
C)  helped him draw powerful inferences and intelligent conclusions from his vast knowledge base.
D)  can seriously disrupt functioning in one's personal lifeE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 10

Research on eyewitness testimony reveals that

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A)  highly confident eyewitnesses are usually accurate.
B)  it is unnecessary to warn an eyewitness that a suspect may or may not be in a lineup.
C)  when viewing a lineup,an eyewitness's confidence in her choice of the suspect can be increased by an authority's confirmation of her choice,even when the choice is wrong.
D)  despite public misconception,eyewitnesses are usually very accurate when selecting a perpetrator from a lineup.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  source memory.
B)  script.
C)  schema.
D)  scan technique.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 12

A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that

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A)  rehearsal cannot account for them.
B)  people's confidence in a memory predicts its accuracy (high confidence = high accuracy) .
C)  extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate.
D)  they are permanent and resist forgetting.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 13

A script is a type of schema that also includes knowledge of

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A)  a sequence of actions.
B)  what is involved in a particular experience.
C)  information stored in both semantic and episodic memory.
D)  items appropriate to a particular setting.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 14

According to theapproach to memory,what people report as memories is based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge,experiences,and expectations.

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A)  event-specific
B)  source
C)  constructive
D)  misinformationE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 15

Stanny and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment,investigating memory for crime scenes,found that

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A)  the presence of a weapon enhances memory for all parts of the event.
B)  the presence of a weapon has no effect on memory for the event.
C)  the threat of a weapon causes people to focus their attention away from the weapon itself.
D)  the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 16

Your text argues that the proper procedure for measuring the accuracy of flashbulb memories is

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A)  source monitoring.
B)  scripting.
C)  repeated recall.
D)  pre-cueing.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 17

When presenting lineups to eyewitnesses,it has been found that a(n) lineup is much more likely to result in an innocent person being falsely identified.

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A)  sequential
B)  simultaneous
C)  immediate
D)  precuedE) None of the above
F) B) and C) B

Question 18

Arkes and Freedman's "baseball game" experiment asked participants to indicate whether the following sentence was present in a passage they had previously read about events in a game: "The batter was safe at first." Their findings showed inaccurate memories involved

Accepted Answer

A)  omissions of information that was presented.
B)  participants who did not understand baseball and assumed more information was presented than actually was.
C)  creations from inferences based on baseball knowledge.
D)  confusions about presented information when it was ambiguous.E) A) and C)
F) None of the above C

Question 19

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 _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  misattribution
B)  script
C)  narrative
D)  schemaE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 20

Which of the following statements is true of police lineups?

Accepted Answer

A)  A sequential lineup increases the chance that the witness compares people in the lineup to each other.
B)  A simultaneous lineup decreases the chance of falsely identifying an innocent person as the perpetrator.
C)  A sequential lineup increases the chance that the witness will make a relative judgment about all the suspects they saw.
D)  A sequential lineup increases the chance that the witness compares each person in the lineup to his or her memory of the event.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Exam 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

Which statement below is NOT true,based on the results of memory research?

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Which of the following statements is true of the cognitive interview technique?

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Loftus and Palmer's "car-crash films" experiment described in the text shows how a seemingly minor word change can produce a change in a person's memory report.In this study,the MPI was (were) the word(s)

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Suppose a friend tells you she has such a vivid memory of a personal event that it seems like a photograph.She wonders aloud about these kinds of memories and how they work.Explain to her the nature of flashbulb memories and what is known about them.

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The "wedding reception" false memory experiment shows that false memories can be explained as a product of familiarity and

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In the "word list" false memory experiment where several students incorrectly remembered hearing the word sleep,false memory occurs because of

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Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?

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The conclusion to be drawn from the man named Shereshevskii whose abnormal brain functioning gave him virtually limitless word-for-word memory is that having memory like a video recorder

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Research on eyewitness testimony reveals that

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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

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A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that

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A script is a type of schema that also includes knowledge of

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According to theapproach to memory,what people report as memories is based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge,experiences,and expectations.

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Stanny and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment,investigating memory for crime scenes,found that

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Your text argues that the proper procedure for measuring the accuracy of flashbulb memories is

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Loftus and Palmer's "car-crash films" experiment described in the text shows how a seemingly minor word change can produce a change in a person's memory report.In this study,the MPI was (were) the word(s)

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Research on eyewitness testimony reveals that

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