3.8 - Reconstructive Memory

In Bartlett's study, "boats" were remembered instead of "canoes" - what is this an example of?

• confirmation bias

• schematic processing

• confabulation

• rationalization

Bartlett's "War of the Ghosts" experiment is perfectly fine to use in essays and SAQ's on the IB exam

• True

• False

Memories are not perfectly preserved "snapshots" of an event but are rather _____________________ every time we access them

• remembered

• reconstructed

• re-assembled

• schematicized

_______________ occurs when information from our memories does not fit nicely into our schemas

• Distortion

• False Memory

• Rationalization

• Reconstruction

Elizabeth Loftus did work related to

• accurate memories being found during hypnosis

• Reconstructive memory processing

• Finding memory traces or engrams.

• Distinguishing long term memory functions from short term memory functions

Which of the following verbs did Loftus and Palmer (1974) use in their study?

• Contacted; hit

• bumped; collided

• hit; smashed

• bumped; hit

In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, how many participants were there?

• 100

• 150

• 190

• 250

In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, how was the dependent variable measured?

• Questionnaires asking the participants to estimate the speed of the cars

• Verbal interviews where participants estimated the speed of the cars

• Brain Scans measuring amygdala activity in response to the car crash footage

• Participants played through the Iowa Gambling Task to measure decision-making

In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, how many different test conditions were there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, what percentage of participants in the "Smashed" test condition created a false memory of having seen broken glass on the ground?

• 10%

• 25%

• 32%

• 47%