What is the overall pattern and structure of an individual’s memory across their entire life?

• Life span memory

• Childhood amnesia

• Reminiscence bump

• Forgetting curve

What is the tendency for people to recall more events from adolescence and early adulthood?

• Childhood amnesia

• Recency effect

• Reminiscence bump

• Forgetting curve

What refers to memories of events and experiences from one’s own life?

• Episodic memory

• Autobiographical memory

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory

What phenomenon suggests that emotionally charged events are remembered very vividly?

• Flashbulb memories

• Childhood amnesia

• Recency effect

• Forgetting curve

What is the term for the tendency to forget details of events as time passes?

• Forgetting curve

• Recency effect

• Reminiscence bump

• Childhood amnesia

What is the term for the errors that occur when we fill in gaps in memory based on what likely happened?

• Inferred memories

• False memories

• Constructive memory

• Schema

What type of bias involves the tendency to remember positive traits about oneself?

• Egocentric bias

• Consistency bias

• Positive change bias

• Personal bias

How easily can memory be modified by suggestion?

• Very easily

• Not at all

• Somewhat easily

Why has our memory system been ‘designed’ (evolved in) that way?

Can Lost Memories be Recovered?