CogPsy - Chapter VI Memory Processes II (250)

Question 1

The serial-position curve depicts two effects:

Answer 1

• recency effect

- primacy effect

Question 2

Decay theory asserts that information is forgotten because of ..

Answer 2

.. gradual disappearance, rather than displacement.

Question 3

Decay or interference?

Answer 3

At least in short-term memory both. But evidence for interference stronger.

Question 4

When we say that the nature of memory is constructive, we mean that …

Answer 4

… prior knowledge influences new memory formation and how and what we recall.

Question 5

Flashbulb memory is a memory of an event …

Answer 5

… so powerful that one remembers it as vividly as if it were preserved on film. -> think 9/11

Question 6

7 kinds of memory distortions:

Answer 6

• transcience (memory fades quickly)
• absent-mindedness (bruhsing your teeth twice)
• blocking (i know there was sth else, but can’t remember it)
• Misattribution
• Suggestibility
• Bias
• Persistence

Question 7

A way to test memory distortion?

Answer 7

eyewitness testimony paradigms

Question 8

One possibility for why we are so bad at knowing whether we have heared something or not?

Answer 8

we have difficulties with “source-monitoring”

Question 9

How items are encoded has a strong effect on how and how well they are retrieved. This is known as …

Answer 9

… encoding specificity.