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Memory and Memory Errors

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Life span memory

b)

Childhood amnesia

c)

Reminiscence bump

d)

Forgetting curve

2.

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

a)

Childhood amnesia

b)

Recency effect

c)

Reminiscence bump

d)

Forgetting curve

3.

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

a)

Episodic memory

b)

Autobiographical memory

c)

Procedural memory

d)

Semantic memory

4.

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

a)

Flashbulb memories

b)

Childhood amnesia

c)

Recency effect

d)

Forgetting curve

5.

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

a)

Forgetting curve

b)

Recency effect

c)

Reminiscence bump

d)

Childhood amnesia

6.

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

a)

Inferred memories

b)

False memories

c)

Constructive memory

d)

Schema

7.

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

a)

Egocentric bias

b)

Consistency bias

c)

Positive change bias

d)

Personal bias

8.

How easily can memory be modified by suggestion?

a)

Very easily

b)

Not at all

c)

Somewhat easily

9.

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

4 lines
10.

Can Lost Memories be Recovered?

4 lines
11.

What are the reasons for errors in eyewitness testimony?

a)

Emotions

b)

Familiarity

c)

Suggestion

12.

What is the Reminiscence Bump?

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