Psychology 101

 Question 1

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| It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of ________.Answer | | | |

| Selected Answer: |    hindsight bias |

Response Feedback: | Incorrect. This is an example of constructive processing or altering the memory at recall.

For more information, see page 245 in your textbook.

Media links related to this topic: Creating False Memories |

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 Question 2

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| False positives occur when a person incorrectly "matches"a stimulus that is merely similar to a real memory to that memory. One major problem with eyewitness testimony is that ________.Answer | | | |

| Selected Answer: |    false positives can cause eyewitness testimony to be quite inaccurate |

Response Feedback: | Correct. False positives can cause eyewitness testimony to be quite inaccurate and innocent people may to go to jail.

For more information, see pages 232-233 in your textbook. |

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 Question 3

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| When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list. This is known as the ________.Answer | | | |

| Selected Answer: |    primacy effect |

Response Feedback: | Correct. The primacy effect means having a better memory for the beginning of the list as compared to the middle.

For more information, see page 231 in your textbook. Media links related to this topic: Serial Position Curve |

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 Question 4

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| A terrible crime is committed, and an eyewitness is unable to identify whether a suspect arrested by the police is actually the one who committed the crime. The police bring in Madame Xanadu to hypnotize the witness, and then the witness...