COG PSYCH FINAL PRACTICE QUESTIONS RECONSTRUCTIVE MEMORY

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Studies of flashbulb memory indicate that ______.
a. stronger emotional responses to an event are associated with less detailed memories
b. more retellings of the event are associated with more accurate memories
c. these memories are no more accurate than those for more mundane life events
d. people are less confident in the accuracy of flashbulb memories than they are about more ordinary memories

C these memories are no more accurate than those for more mundane life events

Studies of eyewitness memory ______.
a. support Bartlett’s idea of memory as a constructive process
b. reveal surprisingly accurate memories of stressful events
c. suggest that confidence is an important attribute of an accurate witness
d. show that witnesses are remarkably resistant to misleading information

A support Bartlett’s idea of memory as a constructive process

A ______ memory is one of historical or personal importance that feels etched
permanently into memory.
a. spotlight

b. flashbulb
c. video
d. polaroid

B flashbulb

One explanation for why the memory of learning about a particularly important
cultural or historical event as it occurs feels especially vivid is that ______.
a. all other events simply have less information associated with them
b. those events activate special memory processes unique to flashbulb events
c. emotional areas of the brain are especially active
d. our emotional processing of other events is usually suppressed

C emotional areas of the brain are especially active