psych 7.3

Question 1

constructive memory

Answer 1

a process by which we first recall a generalized schema and then add in specific details

Question 2

DRM procedure

Answer 2

participants study a list of highly related words called semantic associates

Question 3

false memory

Answer 3

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

Question 4

guided imagery

Answer 4

a technique used y some clinicians (and some police investigators) to help people recover details of events that they are unable to remember

Question 5

imagination inflation

Answer 5

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

Question 6

infantile amnesia

Answer 6

a phenomenon in which we do not have any personal or autobiographical memories from before the third bday

Question 7

misinformation effect

Answer 7

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

Question 8

recovered memory

Answer 8

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

Question 9

recovered memory controversy

Answer 9

a heated debate among psychologists about validity of recovered memories

Question 10

schema

Answer 10

organized clusters of memories that constitute a persons knowledge about events, objects and ideas

Question 11

source memory

Answer 11

the memory for how or where info was initially acquired