Chapter 10

Question 1

What is the term for goal-driven monitoring, evaluating, altering, and gating one’s emotional reactions and memories about emotional experiences?

Answer 1

Emotion regulation.

Question 2

What’s the term that refers to any forgetting that is psychological in origin, and not attributed to neurological damage?

Answer 2

Psychogenic amnesia.

Question 3

Can directed forgetting work?

Answer 3

Yes. Participants may forget what the instructor told them to.

Question 4

Telling yourself not to catch a falling cactus relates to…

Answer 4

Think/no-think paradigm. Controlling memory retrieval.

Question 5

Ballard found that children would often recall new lines of poetry that they had failed to recall previously. What did he refer this phenomenon as?

Answer 5

Reminiscence.

Question 6

What is hypermnesia?

Answer 6

The improvement in recall performance arising from repeated testing sessions on the same material.