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1. Experiments that argue against a special flashbulb memory mechanism find that as time increases since the occurrence of the flashbulb event, participants:
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a. make more errors in their recollections.
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2. Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the:
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a. constructive nature of memory.
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3. The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered) illustrated the effect of ________ on memory.
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a. source misattributions
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4. Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen
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a. schema.
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5. In the "sleep list" false memory experiment, false memory occurs because of
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a. constructive memory processes.
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6. The conclusion to be drawn from the man named Shereshevskii whose abnormal brain functioning gave him virtually limitless word-for-word memory is that having memory like a video recorder:
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a. none of these
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7. The memory-trace replacement hypothesis states that the misinformation effect occurs because:
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a. MPI impairs or replaces memories formed during the original experiencing of an event.
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8. In Lindsay's "misinformation effect" experiment, participants saw a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer. This slide presentation included narration by a female speaker who described what was happening in the slides as they were shown. Results showed that the misinformation effect was greatest when MPI presentation was:
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a. auditory from a female speaker.
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9. Stany and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment, investigating memory for crime scenes, found that:
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a. the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event.
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10. Which of the following statements is true of police lineups?
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a. A sequential lineup increases the chance that the witness compares each person in the lineup to his or her memory of the event
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