Suggestibility Flashcards
Participants who developed a false memory in the “hot air balloon” study, probably did so because they:
Select one:
a. saw themselves in the picture of the basket of the balloon
b. made a source monitoring error
c. visualized the event for a week
d. all of the above
all of the above
The memory-trace replacement (or alteration) hypothesis states that the misinformation effect occurs because:
MPI impairs or replaces memories that were formed during the original experiencing of an event
Research on eyewitness testimony reveals:
a. when viewing a line-up, an eyewitness’s confidence in her choice of the suspect can be increased by an authority’s confirmation of her choice, even when the choice is wrong
b. highly confident eyewitnesses are usually accurate.
c. it is unnecessary to warn an eyewitness that a suspect may or may not be in a line-up
d. all of the above
when viewing a line-up, an eyewitness’s confidence in her choice of the suspect can be increased by an authority’s confirmation of her choice, even when the choice is wrong
According to the Innocence Project, erroneous eyewitness testimony is the leading cause of wrongful convictions in their pool of cases.
true or false?
true
The misinformation effect occurs when a person’s memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented
After the event
Critics of eyewitness testimony could point to the ____ hypothesis to highlight the dangers of repeated questioning of eyewitnesses
memory trace replacement theory
In Lindsay’s misinformation effect experiment, participants saw a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer. This slide presentation included narration by a female speaker who described what was happening in the slides as they were shown. Results showed that the misinformation effect was greatest when MPI presentation was
auditory from female speaker
Your text’s discussion of instances when people report a memory of being abused or witnesses abuse after years of having no memory for these events highlights the importance of considering
Select one:
a. how visualization exercises during therapy may lead to false memories
b. that there is no test that can accurately discriminate between true and false memories
c. the specific situation under which a person recalls the past
d. all of the above
all the above
Your text’s discussion of false memories leads to the conclusion that false memories
Select one:
a. are a natural consequence of a largely adaptive memory system
b. do not occur for all people but rather are experienced by suggestible or inattentive people
c. occur for details but not for entire events
d. occur in laboratory settings but do not occur in real-world circumstances
a. are a natural consequence of a largely adaptive memory system
According to eyewitness memory experts, approximately how long should it take a witness to recognize a picture of a perpetrator?
10-15 seconds
Based on research on memory implantation, how does the inclusion of real photographs from childhood impact the creation of false autobiographical memories?
increased likely hood of creating a false memory
Based on discovered memory of abuse research by Schooler and colleagues it is clear that
some recovered memories are seemingly accurate representations of abuse episodes.
You hear a list of words that includes: bed, rest, tired, slumber, dream, pillow, drowsy …
What type of experiment are you probably participating in?
A simple lab study based on experiemnt on false memory
You are a participant in an experiment in which a man and a woman take turns reading separate lists of words. You hear: bed (man), pin (woman), rest (man), sharp (woman), tired (man), prick (woman) …
During recall you remember the words: bed, rest, pin, needle, prick. You are then asked who said each word you recalled. Who will you claim said needle?
Woman
Loftus and Palmer’s “car-crash slides” experiment described in the text shows how a seemingly minor word change can produce a change in a person’s memory report. In this study, the MPI was (were) the word(s)
“smashed”
