False Memory Vocab
What is the action of increasing the number of false memories without increasing the number of accurate ones
Episodic memory
What is the type of memory system that encodes our memories as personal experiences?
Scientist that introduced the "misinformation effect"
A. Donald Thomson
B. John Demjanjuk
C. Elizabeth Loftus
D. Steven Brass
Who is Elizabeth Loftus (C)?
The major relay center connecting different areas of the brain
Recovery of repressed memories
Hippocampus
What is the area of the brain that correlates to learning and memory?
DRM stands for
A. Deese-Roediger-McDermott
B. Dave-Rudiger-McTominay
C. Dale-Russell-McDonald
D. Deese-Reus-McAllister
Who is Deese-Roediger-McDermott? (A)
Syndrome that involves the breakdown in the connection of the temporal lobe and limbic system
This phenomenon can be associated with reminiscence bump
Image Inflation
What is the action of scientists implanting false memories through participants' imagination?
Metamemory
What is the knowledge and awareness of human memory processes?
Age period usually associated with repressed memories
A. Childhood
B. Teenage years
C. Adulthood
What is childhood? (A)
What is the temporal cortex?
The kind of event that occurs more with flashbulb memories
What are negative events?
Inhibition theory
What is the ability to block out useless stimulation decrease with age?
The "failure to rehearse" hypothesis explains
A. Image Inflation
B. Active Suppression
C. Repression
D. Rehearsal Bias
What is Repression (C)?
What is the hippocampus?
The term used to describe the use of strategic behaviors for better memory
What is memory strategies view?
Fuzzy-trace theory
What is the explanation for retrieving critical intrusions in the DRM?
Theory of mind
What is the awareness that other individuals have different states of awareness that differ from our own?
Drug that has gained notoriety for amnesic effect
A. Lidocaine
B. Dyclonine
C. Benzodiazepines
D. Lexapro
What is Benzodiazepines (C)?
Area of the brain that controls megacognitive control
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The theory that age-related declines occur due to older people's cognitive proccessing not being as quick to work as a younger adult's would.
What is processing speed theory?