Exam 2 Review

False Memory Vocab

100

Hypnosis

What is the action of increasing the number of false memories without increasing the number of accurate ones

200

Recovery of repressed memories 

What is the ability to recall forgotten memories? 

300

Image Inflation

What is the action of scientists implanting false memories through participants' imagination? 

400

DRM Procedure

What is the procedure used to implant false memories for items on word lists? 

500

Fuzzy-trace theory

What is the explanation for retrieving critical intrusions in the DRM? 

Memory and Development Vocab

100

Episodic memory

What is the type of memory system that encodes our memories as personal experiences? 

200

Hippocampus

What is the area of the brain that correlates to learning and memory?

300

Metamemory

What is the knowledge and awareness of human memory processes? 

400

Inhibition theory

What is the ability to block out useless stimulation decrease with age?

500

Theory of mind

What is the awareness that other individuals have different states of awareness that differ from our own? 

Multiple CHOICE

100

Scientist that introduced the "misinformation effect" 

A. Donald Thomson

B. John Demjanjuk 

C. Elizabeth Loftus 

D. Steven Brass

Who is Elizabeth Loftus (C)?

200

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)

300

Age period usually associated with repressed memories

A. Childhood

B. Teenage years

C. Adulthood

What is childhood? (A)

400

The "failure to rehearse" hypothesis explains

A. Image Inflation

B. Active Suppression

C. Repression

D. Rehearsal Bias

What is Repression (C)?

500

Drug that has gained notoriety for amnesic effect

A. Lidocaine

B. Dyclonine

C. Benzodiazepines

D. Lexapro

What is Benzodiazepines (C)? 

Brain

100

The major relay center connecting different areas of the brain

What is Diencephalon/Thalamus?

200

Syndrome that involves the breakdown in the connection of the temporal lobe and limbic system

What is Capgras Syndrome? 

300

The cortex of the brain associated with amnesic syndrome

What is the temporal cortex?

400

Suppression has been associated with a decrease in activity in this area of the brain 

What is the hippocampus?

500

Area of the brain that controls megacognitive control

What is the prefrontal cortex? 

MISC.

100

The result of using a procedure that makes recalling certain information easier than other ones 

What is retrieval bias? 

200

This phenomenon can be associated with reminiscence bump

What is childhood amnesia? 

300

The kind of event that occurs more with flashbulb memories

What are negative events? 

400

The term used to describe the use of strategic behaviors for better memory

What is memory strategies view? 

500

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?