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Worksheets3.8 - Reconstructive Memory
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
In Bartlett's study, "boats" were remembered instead of "canoes" - what is this an example of?
confirmation bias
schematic processing
confabulation
rationalization
Bartlett's "War of the Ghosts" experiment is perfectly fine to use in essays and SAQ's on the IB exam
True
False
Memories are not perfectly preserved "snapshots" of an event but are rather _____________________ every time we access them
remembered
reconstructed
re-assembled
schematicized
_______________ occurs when information from our memories does not fit nicely into our schemas
Distortion
False Memory
Rationalization
Reconstruction
Elizabeth Loftus did work related to
accurate memories being found during hypnosis
Reconstructive memory processing
Finding memory traces or engrams.
Distinguishing long term memory functions from short term memory functions
Which of the following verbs did Loftus and Palmer (1974) use in their study?
Contacted; hit
bumped; collided
hit; smashed
bumped; hit
In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, how many participants were there?
100
150
190
250
In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, how was the dependent variable measured?
Questionnaires asking the participants to estimate the speed of the cars
Verbal interviews where participants estimated the speed of the cars
Brain Scans measuring amygdala activity in response to the car crash footage
Participants played through the Iowa Gambling Task to measure decision-making
In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, how many different test conditions were there?
1
2
3
4
In Loftus & Palmer's 1974 study on memory, what percentage of participants in the "Smashed" test condition created a false memory of having seen broken glass on the ground?
10%
25%
32%
47%
Phenomenon of incorrect information being integrated into a memory of an event
Distortion
Misinformation Effect
False Memories
Confabulation
In the lecture video's discussion of the Loftus & Palmer study, what was one potential limitation of the study that was mentioned?
Population Validity
Ecological Validity
Test-Retest Reliability
Inter-Rater Reliability
a particular type of distortion where a false memory is created of something that never happened
Reconstruction
Code Switching
Confabulation
Eyewitness Testimony
