Research on memory construction indicates that
?recent events are more vulnerable to memory distortion than events from our more distant past
?false memories often feel as real as true memories.
?hypnotic suggestion is a particularly effective technique for accurate memory retrieval.
?it is very difficult to lead people to construct memories of events that never happened.
?true memories are created by long-term potentiation, and false memories are encoded in the cerebellum.
504 Compared with false memories, true memories are more likely to
?persist over time.
?have emotional overtones.
?contain detailed information.
?be reported with confidence
505 By incorporating errors originating from a hypnotist’s leading questions, “hypnotically refreshed” memories often illustrate
?the self-reference effect.
?rosy retrospection.
?the misinformation effect.
?proactive interference.
?priming.
506 Those who are eager to use hypnosis to facilitate eyewitness recollections of the details of a crime should first be warned of the dangers of
?the self-reference effect.
?the misinformation effect.
?proactive interference.
?state-dependent memory.
?the spacing effect.
507 When we fall in love, we tend to overestimate how much we liked our partner when we first began dating. This best illustrates the dynamics of
?automatic processing.
?the spacing effect.
?proactive interference.
?the serial position effect.
?memory construction.
508 Karl and Dee had a joyful wedding ceremony. After their painful divorce, however, they began to remember the wedding as a somewhat hectic and unpleasant event. Their recollections best illustrate the nature of
?proactive interference.
?memory construction.
?the spacing effect.
?the serial position effect.
?repression
509 When asked to recall their attitudes of 10 years ago regarding marijuana use, people offer recollections closer to their current views than to those they actually reported a decade earlier. This best illustrates
?memory construction.
?proactive interference.
?the self-reference effect.
?mood-congruent memory.
?repression.
510 Donald Thompson, an Australian psychologist, was an initial suspect in a rape case. The rape victim confused her memories of Thompson and the actual rapist because she had seen Thompson’s image on TV shortly before she was attacked. The victim’s false recollection best illustrates
?state-dependent memory.
?mood-congruent memory.
?the spacing effect.
?source amnesia.
?the self-reference effect.
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