Types of memory
What is episodic memory?
This type of memory stores personal life events
According to Craik & Lockhart, deeper processing leads to better___
Recall
What is encoding specificity?
Memory improves when encoding and retrieval contexts match
Incorrect recall due to misleading information after an event is called the ___ effect
Post-event misinformation
According to the Pollyanna Principle, we remember ____ information best
Pleasant
What is an example of semantic memory?
a. remembering your 10th birthday
b. knowing cabbage taste bitter
c. riding a bike
b. knowing cabbage taste bitter
Which leads to the memory?
a. color of ink
b. sound of the word
c. meaning of the word
c. meaning of the word
A bilingual person remembers best when tested in the same langayge as learning true or false.
True
Confidence and accuracy in eyewitness testimony are always accurate, true or false?
False
Over time, unpleasant memories fade more than pleasant ones. This is called what?
Positivity effect
____ memory refers to knowledge about how to perform tasks like driving
Procedural
The ___ effect says remember information better when we relate it to ourselves
Self-reference
Identifying wether an event really happened or was imagined is called ____ monitoring.
Reality
The bias causes people to better recognize faces of their own ethnic group
Own-ethnicity bias
The perspective arguing that traumatic memories may be forgotten and later retrieved is called the ___ memory perspective.
Recovery