Quiz 8 Flashcards
Pat is seeing a therapist for depression. The therapist believes that Pat’s depression may be due to some unresolved issues beginning in childhood. During a therapy session, Pat suddenly remembers being lost at a carnival as a child and being terrified that he would never see his family again.
The therapist has been in contact with Pat’s family and determines that this could not have happened as they never visited the carnival when Pat was a child. However, this did happen to Pat’s boyhood friend, Bob.
Based only on the above information, what is the most specific and accurate description of Pat’s memory?
false memory
In an experiment by Nash & Wade (2009), participants played a gambling game on the computer. When they won a round and saw a green check, they collected money from the bank next to the computer. If they lost a round and saw a red cross, they returned money to the bank.
After the experiment, some participants were presented with doctored video evidence that they cheated (see below). Based on this alone, the most specific reason for the false confession was due to the experimenter’s use of _________________.
misinformation
In lecture, we saw video of a police interrogation that led to a false confession. Which of the following are factors that could lead to a false confession during a lengthy interrogation?
High emotional stress.
Social pressure due to feedback effects.
Misinformation effects
Most people have trouble remembering names. However, for people diagnosed with _____________, they have extreme problems producing the proper names of most individuals.
proper name anomia
We discussed a number of strategies for remembering new names.
A.
Create a rhyming nickname to elaborate on the name.
B. Ask the speaker to repeat the name immediately, encoding it a second time. C. Create some visual association linking the name to the individual.
– if it wasn’t encoded into long-term memory the first time, it will be lost from short-term/working memory after 60 seconds.
Cahill et al (1995) explored the effect of emotion on memory. They asked participants to read a story accompanied by pictures. The story was the same at the beginning and end, but participants read either emotional content (boy in an accident) or neutral content (boy visits hospital) in the middle of the story.
The emotional content caused all emotional details to be remembered more accurately, but had little effect on neutral details at the beginning and end
The area of the brain most identified as being specifically involved in encoding emotional memories is the _____________.
amygdala
People with hyperthymesia do make
false memory errors when remembering lists of semantically related items
In an experiment by Snyder et al (2006) using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), it was found that temporarily disturbing function in the ________________ could improve the numerosity judgments in neurotypical subjects.
left anterior temporal
lobe (LATL)
It is thought that savants are more literal and rely much less on _____________ when trying to understand complex situations.
schemas
strategy employed by the method of loci?
A.
Using a retrieval plan
B. Focusing attention C. Elaboration D. Pair-associate learning
consistent mapping
_____________ is your awareness of how likely you are to remember something and how strong that memory will be.
Metamemory
