Test1_memory

The associative deficit hypothesis is a proposal that the age deficit in memory comes from an impaired capacity to form associations between previously unrelated stimuli.

• True

• False

Flashbulb memory is a term applied to the detailed and apparently highly accurate memory of an everyday experience.

• True

• False

Implicit memory is memory that is open to intentional retrieval, whether based on recollecting personal events or facts.

• True

• False

Psychogenic amnesia is characterized by profound and surprising

episodes of forgetting the events of one’s life,

arising from psychological factors, rather than

biological damage or dysfunction.

• True

• False

Confabulation refers to a disturbance of the executive system and is generally caused by damage to the temporal lobe.

• True

• False

The hierarchical network model explains better the experimental results related to semantic memory than the spreading activation theory.

• True

• False

Autobiographical memory is memory across

the lifespan for both specific events and self-related

information.

• True

• False

A script is a type of schema relating to the typical

sequences of events in various common situations

(e.g., having a meal in a restaurant).

• True

• False

The reminiscence ... is a tendency in participants

over 40 to show a high rate of recollecting

personal experiences from their late teens and

early twenties.

... amnesia refers to the fact that memory for events over the first 3–5 years of life

when tested in later adults is very low.