UNIT 2 TEST

Rosy Retrospection happens when we think about how bad we have it now, forgetting how easy we had it in the past.

• True

• False

Generally, we are more likely to remember important conversations more than unimportant conversations

• True

• False

What are the 3 ways to show that something was once learned

• Rapid Relearning

• Renewal

• Recognition

• Recall

Actually, eyewitness testimony is generally not very reliable.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The misinformation effect is that new inputs and experiences can significantly change
your memories from what they were before, without your awareness that any change has
taken place.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Flashbulb memory is memory that occurs suddenly and vividly, but vanishes from your
memory almost as rapidly as it went into it.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Your body secretes hormones during very stressful and/or exciting events, and those
hormones increase your memory for those events.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Long-term potentiation is an increase in a neuron’s firing potential after brief, rapid
stimulation during learning and recall.

• TRUE

• FALSE

An inability to form new memories is called:

• Retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Source Amnesia

If you say things out loud, telling them to another person or even an animal or inanimate
object or even talking to the wall, it will help you learn and remember material better

• TRUE

• FALSE