PSY352 Week 3 | Cognitive Psychology in Psychology - Ashford University

PSY352 Cognitive Psychology Week 3 Quiz Question 1Research in everyday memory issues is usually higher in _______ and lower in _______ than typical laboratory memory research. ecological validity; internal validity internal validity; ecological validity internal validity; external validity ecological validity; external validity

Question 2The results of laboratory studies of illusory memory indicate that:

participants often consciously recollect the theme words around which each list is constructed, even though these words were never presented. participants don’t generally recollect that the theme word had been presented; they just KNOW that it was presented. participants often recognized that the theme words as having been in the lists but rarely recalled those theme words. false memories can not be created in a list learning paradigm.

Question 3The Proust phenomenon is:

the power of odors to elicit memories that are especially old and vivid the ability of odors to generate more detailed memories using olfactory odors to generate autobiographical facts the ability of odors to generate very early memories in life

Question 4Which of these is an example of autobiographical memory?

Dan remembers his first date. Susan plans for the two papers she has to write this week. Zoe recalls that her mom hates it when she bites her nails. Brant tells someone that he has season tickets to his college's games. Question 5Wang (2006) compared the early recall of Taiwanese and U.S. adults in terms of the age of their early childhood recollections and the degree of autonomy reflected in the memories. She found that U.S. participants had ____ memories than Taiwanese participants, and that memories of U.S. participants were ____ likely to reflect autonomy. earlier; more earlier; less later; more later; less

Question 6The phenomenon of imagination inflation:

is an instance in which the less a memory is imagined, the more real it seems. is an instance in which the more a memory is imagined, the more real it seems is present only in young children. only works in a laboratory setting. Question 7Which of these autobiographical memory research techniques was introduced by the same individual who came up with the statistical technique of correlation? cue-word technique targeted event recall diary technique flashbulb memories Question 8Nash, Wadem, and Brewer (2009) investigated what they termed the doctored evidence effect and propose all but one of these as a possible source of the effect. Which one did they not propose? imagination familiarity credibility elaboration The answer can be found in Section 8.3 Illusory Memories.

Question 9Currently, flashbulb memories seem to be explained by:

encoding specificity special memory mechanisms due to the emotion involved the Now Print! Theory the intensification of basic memory mechanisms by emotion Question 10All of these are typically a component of a flashbulb memory except for: what you were doing at the time what you were wearing that day what you did next how you felt when you heard Question 11Autobiographical memory helps us to organize, reflect on, and think through important life events. This assertion relates to which function of autobiographical memory? informational communicative directive emotional Question 12Relating details of personally experienced events makes us seem more believable and truthful, and tends to make us more persuasive. This assertion relates to which function of autobiographical memory? emotional informational communicative directive Question 13People often tout the power of smells as cues for autobiographical memories. How does empirical research stack up on this issue? Olfactory cues produce more detailed memories than do non-olfactory cues. Olfactory cues produce more recent memories than do non-olfactory cues. Olfactory cues produce more vivid memories than do non-olfactory cues. Olfactory cues tend to produce flashbulb memories. Question 14Which of these autobiographical memory research techniques allows a researcher to plot the autobiographical retention function? cue-word technique targeted event recall diary technique flashbulb memories Question 15The "general events" level of representation in autobiographical memory bears a strong resemblance to: the subordinate level of category representation the superordinate level of category representation the basic level of category representation the notion of an exemplar in category representation