Chapter 6.5 - Memory Failures

Question 1

The Seven Sins of Memory are:

Answer 1

Transience, Absentmindedness, Blocking, Memory Misattribution, Suggestibility, Bias, Persistence

Question 2

_______ is forgetting what occurs with the passage of time.

Answer 2

Transience - Memory fades more quickly at first, then slowly over time

Question 3

_________ Interference refers to situations fo transience in which information learned LATER impairs memory for information acquired earlier.

Answer 3

Retroactive interference

Question 4

_________ Interference refers to situations fo transience in which information learned EARLIER impairs memory for information acquired later.

Answer 4

Proactive interference

Question 5

__________ is a lapse in attention that results in memory failure.

Answer 5

Absentmindedness

Question 6

Absentmindedness can be a result of _________ attention.

Answer 6

divided

Question 7

Remembering to do things in the future is called ___________ memory.

Answer 7

Prospective

Question 8

_________ is a failure to retrieve information that is available in memory, even though you are trying to produce it.

Answer 8

Blocking - Tip-of-the tongue Phenomenon

Question 9

Assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source is memory ____________.

Answer 9

Misattribution - Frontal Lobe Involved

Question 10

_______ memory is a recall of when, where, and how information was acquired.

Answer 10

Source

Question 11

_____ recognition is a feeling of familiarity about something that hasn’t been encountered before.

Answer 11

False recognition - Tricky because the hippocampus still activates as if it is true recognition.

Question 12

_______________ is the tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal recollections.

Answer 12

Suggestibility - People can develop false memories in response to suggestions.

Question 13

______ is the distorting influences of present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings on recollection of previous experiences.

Answer 13

Bias

Question 14

_________ bias is the need to reconstruct the past to fit the present.

Answer 14

Consistency bias

Question 15

_______ bias is the tendency to exaggerate differences between what we feel or believe now and what we felt or believed in the past.

Answer 15

Change bias

Question 16

_______ is the intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could forget.

Answer 16

Persistence

Question 17

__________ memories are detailed recollections of when and where we heard about shocking events.

Answer 17

Flashbulb memories

Question 18

The _________ is involved during the encoding of emotional memory.

Answer 18

Amygdala

Question 19

It is helpful and sometimes important to forget information that isn’t current. Example of __________.

Answer 19

Transience

Question 20

We tend to preserve details that are worthy of attention and recall, and discard those that are less worthy.

Answer 20

Absentmindedness and Blocking

Question 21

Memory ___________ and ___________ might allow us to anticipate/try out different versions of events.

Answer 21

Memory misattribution and suggestibility

Question 22

______ may contribute to our overall sense of contentment.

Answer 22

Bias

Question 23

Flash Bulb Memory Issue: ______ focuses you on a few _______ but lets you ______ other details.

Answer 23

Emotion focuses you on a few details but lets you ignore other details.

Question 24

___________ depends on the interaction of the _______ and __________.

Answer 24

Consolidation depends on the interaction of the amygdala and hippocampus.

Question 25

Flashbulb Memories of 9-11 are likely to be inaccurate or the detail of how you ______ about the incident or ____ you were with. Obviously not the images of planes crashing into buildings.

Answer 25

Flashbulb Memories of 9-11 are likely to be inaccurate or the detail of how you Heard about the incident or **Who **you were with. Obviously not the images of planes crashing into buildings

Question 26

9-11 But they were particularly bad at remembering what their _______ were. They were better at memories for the ______ of the attack than they were for their personal ________.

Answer 26

But they were particularly bad at remembering what their Emotions ** were. They were better at memories for the Facts** of the attack than they were for their personal** Recollections**.