Study Questions Number 20 Chapter 10. Memory (352-372)

Student Name _____________________ Date due: 10-27-04 Introduction to Psychology 101 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.

1.	What is meant by the statement that memory is a reconstructive process? (355)
2.	What is source amnesia? Give an example. (355)
3.	What are confabulations? Confabulations are likely to occur under what four circumstances? (356-357)
4.	In what ways are eyewitness testimonies not always reliable? Give an example of one study that demonstrated this. (358-359)
5.	Under what conditions are children's memories apt to be suggestible? (360-361)
6.	Differentiate between recall and recognition. Tests in this class are recall or recognition? What are the advantages of recall tests? (362-363)
7.	Describe the information-processing, three-box model of memory including its components.
8.	Describe sensory memory. What purpose does sensory memory serve? How long is information in sensory memory? (366-367)
9.	Describe short-term memory. What is the purpose of short-term memory? How long is information in short-term memory? What is the capacity of short-term memory? (367-368)
10.	Describe long-term memory. What is the capacity of long-term memory? How is long-term memory organized? (368-370)
11.	What are procedural memories? What are semantic memories? What are Episodic memories? Give an example of each. (370-371)
12.	What is the serial-position effect? What is the primacy effect? What is the recency effect? (371-372)