Remembering and Forgetting: Crash Course Psychology #14

What did Bernice witness while driving home from work?

• A lost dog running in the street

• A car accident

• A shadowy figure stealing a crate of bananas

• A street performer

What is NOT a type of memory discussed?

• Explicit memory

• Short-term memory

• Implicit memory

• Invisible memory

What phenomenon helps explain why we remember the first and last items on a list better than those in the middle?

• Priming

• Context-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

• Serial position effect

What effect demonstrates how new information can interfere with the recall of old information?

• Primacy effect

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Misinformation effect

According to Elizabeth Loftus, what percentage of U.S. prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence were convicted due to mistaken eyewitnesses?

• 50%

• 85%

• 75%

• 65%