False Memories
These types of memories occur when people recall things that did not happen.
What are false memories?
This term refers to people's judgments and beliefs about their own memory performance.
What is metamemory?
What is the name of the procedure used to study the limits of people's ability to identify stimuli that vary along one dimension?
What is absolute identification?
Implicit learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge without this.
What is conscious awareness?
This term describes the error of identifying a word as part of a sequence even though it was not included.
What is a false alarm?
True or False: People’s predictions about their memory performance are always accurate.
What is false?
In absolute identification experiments, people can typically identify no more than how many items when they vary along just one dimension?
What is seven?
In serial pattern learning tasks, what does faster key-pressing over repeated trials indicate?
What is learning has taken place?
The method used to create false memories was first introduced by this researcher in 1959.
Who is Deese?
This type of test involves deciding whether a word was presented during the study phase.
What is a recognition test?
Items at these positions in a stimulus series are identified most easily in absolute identification experiments.
What are the first and last positions?
When the sequence changes during a transfer test, how do subjects' reaction times typically change?
What is they become slower?
These types of words are specially designed to bias participants toward forming false memories in experiments.
What are lure words?
Metamemory accuracy is commonly studied by comparing these two things.
What are predictions and actual performance?
True or False: With enough trials, people can become perfect at absolute identification tasks involving a single dimension.
What is false?
What is the primary evidence that learning in implicit learning tasks is unconscious?
What is subjects are unable to explicitly state the pattern but their behavior demonstrates learning?
The memories created in false memory experiments can feel this way, even though they are incorrect.
What is vivid or strong?
The researcher cited for foundational work on metamemory accuracy in 1992.
Who is Hertzog?
Identify two reasons why identifying letters of the alphabet is easier than identifying items in an absolute identification task.
What are "letters vary along multiple dimensions such as height and curvature"?
What type of test is used to demonstrate implicit learning by introducing a new sequence without informing the subject?
What is a transfer test?
What is implicit learning? (On the very bottom of COG LAB 5 write JEOPARDY EXTRA CREDIT for an extra credit point for going through this material!)