Chapter 6 - Long Term Memory (part 4)

Question 1

metamemory

Answer 1

introspective knowledge of our own memory capabilities

-will i remember this tomorrow?

Question 2

Remembering remembering

Answer 2

participants more often forgot that they had previously recalled an item if they were cued to think of it differently on two different tests

Question 3

Misinformation effect

Answer 3

misleading or suggestive information presented after a person witnesses an event can change how that person describes the event later

Question 4

Memory-trace replacement

Answer 4

MPI impairs or replaces memories that were formed during original event

Question 5

Retroactive interfernce

Answer 5

more recent learning interferes with memory for something in the past
-original memory trace is not replaced

Question 6

Source monitoring error

Answer 6

Failure to distinguish the source of the information

-MPI is misattributed to the original source