Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

Question 1

What is hyperthymesia (H-SAM)

Answer 1

Highly superior autobiographical memory

Question 2

Are our memories products of reconstruction?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

Do our memories work as video recorders?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

Is memory stored as a unit?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

Are memories stored in pieces?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What is the process of reconstruction?

Answer 6

Bringing the pieces together in retrieval that you rebuild and fill in the blanks and then when you restore it the memory is not the same as it originally was

Question 7

Who proposed the sins of memory?

Answer 7

Daniel Shackner?

Question 8

What are the seven sins of memory?

Answer 8

1.) Transience
2.) Absentmindedness
3.) Blocking
4.) Persistence
5.) Misattribution
6.) Suggestibility
7.) Bias

Question 9

What are the sins of omission?

Answer 9

1.) Transience
2.) Absentmindedness
3.) Blocking

Question 10

What is the definition of sins of omission?

Answer 10

Failures to bring something to mind

Question 11

What is the definition of sins of commission?

Answer 11

The presence of unwanted or inaccurate memories

Question 12

What are the sins of commission?

Answer 12

1.) Persistence
2.) Misattribution
3.) Suggestibility
4.) Bias

Question 13

What is transience?

Answer 13

loss of information from memory with the passage of time

Question 14

What is absentmindedness?

Answer 14

Problems with the interface between attention and long term memory

Question 15

What is blocking?

Answer 15

Failure to retrieve information stored in long-term memory

Question 16

What is persistence?

Answer 16

Continued (unwanted) automatic retrieval of memories

Question 17

What is misattribution?

Answer 17

Memory is ascribed to the wrong source

Question 18

What is suggestibility?

Answer 18

False recollection perhaps due to leading questions or others’ suggestions

Question 19

What is bias?

Answer 19

Influence of who we are on what we remember

Question 20

What is Yerkes-Dodson law?

Answer 20

the inverted u-shape function that shows that memory is best at moderate levels of emotional arousal but poorer at low and high levels of arousal

Question 21

What is the weapon focus effect?

Answer 21

The finding that memory for peripheral details of an event are poorer when there is a salient, emotionally charged object (e.g. weapon) that is drawing attention and processing

Question 22

What is memory narrowing (tunnel memory) ?

Answer 22

At high levels of emotional arousal, people tend to have better memories central and poorer memories for peripheral details

Question 23

What is the other race effect?

Answer 23

Finding that people are better at recognizing faces of their own race relative to faces of other races

Question 24

What is the relation of physical exertion?

Answer 24

Seems to be linked with detrimental effects on memory

Question 25

What is the misinformation effect?

Answer 25

Incorrectly claiming to remember information that was not part of some original experience

Question 26

What is unconscious transference

Answer 26

failure to distinguish between a target person and another person encountered at a different time