Chapter 8

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT one of Schacter’s “seven sins of memory”?

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

Remembering to do something in the future is called

Answer 2

prospective memory

Question 3

Which level of representation is retained in memory for the longest period of time?

Answer 3

situation model

Question 4

This is the ability to identify where information in a memory came from.

Answer 4

source monitoring

Question 5

This refers to the intentional forgetting of painful or traumatic experiences.

Answer 5

repression

Question 6

The inability to remember life events before the age of 2-4 is called

Answer 6

infantile amnesia

Question 7

When more words are associated within a propositional structure, the response time to access those words increases; this is called

Answer 7

the fan effect

Question 8

This refers to when a person makes a prediction, after studying some material, whether that information will be remembered on a later test.

Answer 8

Judgments of learning

Question 9

In source monitoring, the ________ is important for integrating content and source information; while the ________ is important for searching and using source information

Answer 9

hippocampus; prefrontal cortex

Question 10

In the leading questions/memory distortion research by Loftus, participants were shown a video of a car crash and then asked how fast the cars were going when they bumped/smashed each other. One week later, the “smashed” group reported seeing broken glass to a greater extent than the “bumped” group. This study most clearly demonstrates

Answer 10

the fan effect.
source misattribution
a memory impairment