Remembering Complex Events Recap

Which of the following cell types underlie cognitive maps (select all that apply)?

• Place cells

• Map cells

• Grid cells

• GPS cells

According to scene construction theory, the hippocampus constructs scenes for all of the following EXCEPT:

• Memory

• Imagination

• Attention

• Navigation

True or False: According to consolidation theory, the hippocampus serves as an index for old memories.

• True

• False

When we retrieve a new, unconsolidated memory, which brain areas do we activate?

• Only the hippocampus

• The hippocampus and frontal lobes

• Those involved during encoding

• Those involved during encoding and the hippocampus

Misremembering the family reunion as occurring over summer break when it was the beach trip that occurred over summer break is an example of a(n):

• individual difference

• schema

• intrusion error

• bias

This sin of memory is a failure to remember due to a failure to encode

• Transience

• Absent-mindedness

• Blocking

• Suggestibility

The more we imagine an event having occurred, the more likely we are to misremember it as having actually occurred. This is called a(n):

• imagination inflation

• memory implantation

• an imagined memory

• intrusion error

Although flashbulb memories are vivid, that we don't remember flashbulb memories as well as we think shows that that vividness may be a(n):

• misattribution

• bias

• adaptive feature of the brain

• illusion of confidence

Misremembering a dream as having actually occurred is an example of:

• misattribution

• suggestibility

• external source monitoring

• internal source monitoring

If you're taking an exam for a subject that you're not an expert in, is it better to keep or change your multiple choice answer?

• Keep

• Change