Writers Den

31) which brain area is very much involved in creating a mental imagine?

1. Frontal lobe
2. Temoral lobe
3. Occipital lobe
4. Parietal lobe

32)According to the research on flashbulb memories,

a)Many researchers have found that the flashbulb memories contain inaccuracies

b) flashbulb memory is indeed qualitative different type of memory

c) people did not make errors about their flashbulb memory even after many years

d) there is absolutely no way to either confirm or disconfirm people’s flashbulb memory

33)Most of the distortions in our mental map are the result of our memory’s tendencies to

1. Leave out details
2. Make it irregular features more regular
3. Exaggerate the irregularities
4. A and B but not C

34) The concept called “feeling of knowing”

1. Describes how confident you are that you will recall the right answer later
2. Describes the feeling that you would likely be able to recognize the correct answer in a recognition test.
3. Is more closely related to retrospective memory than to metamemory
4. Is not correlated with the amount of partial information we can retrieve

35)______Theory of representation says that information is represented in an abstract form of meaning and that both words or images

a)Verbal

b)imaginary

c)dual code

d)propositional

36)the biases in our mental map include

1. Symmetry
2. Vertical assignment
3. Relative position
4. All of the above

37) People have a mental model of physics

a)Their mental model of physics is the same as physical laws in the physical textbook

b) many people’s mental model of physics is different from the physical laws in the physics textbook

c)their native physics improves over age towards the correct physics

d)Their naive physics improves over education levels towards the correct physics

38)Age, race, and familiarity effect in face recognition can be explained as a(n)

a)primacy effect

b)Contact effect

c)Interference effect

d)Stereotyping effect

39)When people can construct a mental model from a verbal description,

1. They do not memorize the exact words in the verbal description
2. They can give more information than is in the verbal description
3. They memorize the exact wording in the verbal description
4. Both a and b are correct

40) the “false fame” phenomenon comes from

1. A feeling of familiarity without a recollective memory of the sources of familiarity
2. The fact that we can remember the source of the message without remembering the message
3. Post-witness misinformation
4. Filling in a gap from a schema