Module 7.3 - Constructing and Reconstructing Memories

Question 1

schemas

Answer 1

organized clusters of memories that constitute ones knowledge about events objects and ideas

Question 2

______ influence the way we interpret, organize, communicate and remember information

Answer 2

schemas

Question 3

when uncertain we use schemas to help reconstruct ______

Answer 3

memories

Question 4

________ leads to greater activity in the mPFC and greater connectivity between the mPFC and somatosensory cortex

Answer 4

schema-congruent information

Question 5

true or false: retrieving memory is like playing a video game

Answer 5

FALSE: retrieving memory is NOT like playing a video game

Question 6

is retrieving memory and active or inactive process?

Answer 6

active process, therefore it can be manipulated

Question 7

confabulation

Answer 7

confusing an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you

Question 8

coming to believe that you remember something that never happened

Answer 8

confabulation

Question 9

true or false: confabulation relies on schemas and semantic networks to “fill in the blanks” of a memory

Answer 9

true

Question 10

DRM procedure

Answer 10

a memory task in which participants study a list of highly related words called semantic associates (which means they are associated by meaning)

Question 11

in DRM procedure the most obvious member, the ________ is missing

Answer 11

critical lure

Question 12

the result of DRM procedure is often (70% of the time) a ________

Answer 12

memory intrusion

Question 13

false memory

Answer 13

remembering events that did not occur, or incorrectly recalling details of an event

Question 14

misinformation effect

Answer 14

when information occurring after an event becomes part of the memory for that event

Question 15

true or false: it is possible to create complex “autobiographical” memories

Answer 15

true

Question 16

___% of participants who saw a Disneyland ad featuring Bugs Bunny recalled shaking hands with him

Answer 16

16%

Question 17

what 3 things are children very susceptible to?

Answer 17

1) misinformation effects
2) a questions wording
3) an interviewers mannerisms

Question 18

imagination inflation

Answer 18

the increased confidence in a false memory of an event following repeated imagination of the event

Question 19

some physicians use _______ to help patients recover lost memories

Answer 19

guided imagery

Question 20

recovered memory

Answer 20

a memory of a traumatic event that is suddenly recovered after blocking the memory of that event for a long period of time, often many years

Question 21

recovered memory is conceptually related to ______

Answer 21

repression

Question 22

stress hormones impair ____ functioning

Answer 22

hippocampal

Question 23

recovered memory controversy

Answer 23

a heated debate among psychologists about the validity of recovered memories

Question 24

true or false: the hippocampus is always active; sensory areas in the cortex are only active during true memories

Answer 24

true

Question 25

true or false: recovered memory controversy is related to peoples conscious memory of what they saw

Answer 25

FALSE: this activity is unrelated to peoples conscious memory of what they saw