Joanne is studying for a psychology test. Based on the results of studies examining context effects, ...

Joanne is studying for a psychology test. Based on the results of studies examining context effects, Joanne should get the best test results if she ____.
 
  a. studies in the library by herself
 b. studies on her bed in her bedroom
  c. studies while intoxicated
 d. studies in the testing room

Ques. 2

According to ____, the way of representing information as it is placed into memory affects the way in which the information may be recalled later.
 
  a. distributed learning
 b. encoding specificity
 c. metacognitive strategy
  d. reconstructive memory

Ques. 3

Under laboratory conditions, participants seem to ____ recall items that have pleasant associations in comparison to items that have unpleasant associations.
 
  a. more accurately
 b. less accurately
 c. as accurately
 d. more or less accurately, depending on context

Ques. 4

When a person has a difficult time in remembering the context in which they heard the information and erroneously attribute it to a different context, ____ has occurred.
 
  a. source-monitoring error
 b. accessibility error
 c. encoding specificity error
 d. context dependent memory error

Ques. 5

Roediger and McDermott have shown that ____.
 
  a. it is impossible to create false memories
 b. it is easy to create false memories
 c. it is difficult to create false memories
 d. false memories are more common than true ones

Ques. 6

Several recommendations have been made to improve eyewitness testimony. Which of the following is one of those recommendations?
 
  a. Present suspects together in a large group in the line-up.
 b. Tell eyewitnesses that the perpetrator may not be in the line-up.
 c. Construct line-ups with individuals who look distinctively different.
  d. Place more trust in confident eyewitness testimony.

Ques. 7

In which group is the validity of eyewitness testimony particularly suspect?
 
  a. young children
 b. people with dyslexia
 c. people with quadriplegia
  d. adolescent males

Ques. 8

When the perpetrator (person who committed a crime) is not present in a line-up, eyewitnesses tend to ____.
 
  a. pick an individual who looks most like the perpetrator
  b. not pick anyone from the line-up
 c. pick the least attractive individual in the line-up
 d. pick an individual from the line-up at random

Ques. 9

The notion that some types of memories (e.g., due to trauma) have been pushed deep into the unconscious and therefore may be difficult to retrieve is known as ____.
 
  a. persistence of trauma
 b. motivated suggestibility
  c. repressed memories
 d. intrapsychic transience

Ques. 10

Your friend insists that you both saw your cognitive psychology professor dancing, rather laughably, at a local club. Because of ____, you may believe that you actually saw the spectacle when, in fact, you did not.
 
  a. suggestibility
  b. bias
 c. blocking
 d. transience

Ques. 11

The difficulty in recalling information that one knows they should know is called ____.
 
  a. transience
 b. misattribution
  c. persistence
 d. blocking