Remembering and Forgetting - Crash Course Psychology

The video explores the complexities of human memory, using a story about Bernice witnessing a crime. It delves into how memories are retrieved, the role of associations, and the effects of context and mood. The video also discusses the serial position effect, forgetting, interference, and the misinformation effect, highlighting the fragility of memory and the unreliability of eyewitness accounts.

What did Bernice witness that led her to contact the police?

• A street fight

• A bank heist

• A fruit truck robbery

• A car accident

What type of memory requires conscious effort to recall?

• Procedural memory

• Sensory memory

• Explicit memory

• Implicit memory

What is the term for activating associations in memory without conscious awareness?

• Encoding

• Priming

• Decoding

• Rehearsal

Which type of memory is influenced by the context in which it was formed?

• Procedural memory

• Implicit memory

• Context-dependent memory

• State-dependent memory

What is the term for forgetting due to failure to encode information?

• Encoding failure

• Storage decay

• Interference

• Retrieval failure

What is proactive interference?

• New information interfering with old information

• Old information interfering with new information

• Forgetting due to lack of retrieval cues

• Memory distortion due to misleading information

What effect describes the alteration of memories due to misleading information?

• Primacy effect

• Recency effect

• Misinformation effect

• Serial position effect

Who is known for research on the misinformation effect?

• Jean Piaget

• B.F. Skinner

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Sigmund Freud

What is source misattribution?

• All of the above

• Creating a new memory from a false source

• Remembering the source of a memory incorrectly

• Forgetting the source of a memory

What percentage of US prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence were convicted by mistaken eyewitnesses?

• 50%

• 75%

• 90%

• 60%