Ch 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

Autobiographical memory can be defined as...

• memory for specific experiences from our life, including only implicit memory

• memory for specific experiences from our life, including only episodic memory

• memory for specific experiences from our life, including both semantic and episodic memory

• A vivid memory that is not always accurate

What is infantile amnesia?

• Adults not having episodic memories before the ages of 2-4 years old

• Children not encoding memories during the ages of 2-4 years old

• Adults not having episodic memories before the age of 10 years old

• Children not being able to encode any semantic or episodic memories until 10 years old

Which of the following is a potential explanation for infantile amnesia?

• No potential explanations have been proposed as of now

• Children don't pay as much attention to their surroundings as adults do

• The amygdala is underdeveloped until about 4 years old

• The hippocampus is underdeveloped until about 4 years old

What does the NEUROGENESIS explanation of infantile amnesia state?

• Young children may process emotional information differently

• Children have underdeveloped language abilities, which may affect their ability to reconstruct episodic events

• During childhood, the brain produces a lot of new neurons in the hippocampus, which could cause memories to be overwritten.

• Memory is high for events that occurred between 10 and 30 years of age

What does the reminiscence bump refer to?

• The end of infantile amnesia

• High memory for events that occur between approximately 10 and 30 years of age

• The development of the hippocampus

• The aging of children into adolescence

How does emotion affect memory?

• We tend to remember very positive and negative events more than daily events

• We tend to remember daily events more than very positive and negative events

• Emotion has no effect on memory

• We tend to remember emotional events better than daily events, but only during adolescence

Which of the following is true about flashbulb memories?

• They are vivid and highly accurate.

• They are not vivid, but they are highly accurate.

• They are vivid, but not necessarily accurate over time.

• They are not vivid, and not necessarily accurate over time.

My friend thinks I told her a piece of information, when really she must have heard it from somewhere else. This is an example of:

• The illusory truth effect

• A source monitoring error

• The reminiscence bump

• A flashbulb memory

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

• narrative rehearsal

• cryptomnesia

• repeated recall

• the illusory truth effect

The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered) illustrated the effect of __________ on memory.

• repeated rehearsal of distinctive names

• source monitoring errors

• encoding specificity

• schemas