Suppose that you attend a lecture in which a psychologist says, Memory is created by gathering together and integrating information from a variety of sources.
After a memory has been formed, we cannot accurately recall the source of each memory component. This speaker would be most likely to endorse the ______________ view of memory.
a. constructive
b. boundary-extension
c. exemplar
d. pragmatic
Question 2According to research on memory for interrelated sentences,
a. people recall hearing many sentences that were never actually presented.
b. people's verbatim memory is generally close to perfect.
c. people often believe that they have heard a sentence before, even if the meaning of that sentence is very different from the original.
d. several minutes after the material has been presented, people usually cannot remember the general meaning of that material.
Question 3Think about the various approaches to general knowledge, as discussed in Chapter 8. Which of these approaches is most closely related to the concept of boundary extension?
a. the prototype approach
b. the exemplar approach
c. the parallel distributed processing (PDP) approach
d. the schema approach
Question 4Which of the following students provides the most accurate description of the way that boundary extension might operate in eyewitness testimony?
a. Daniel: Each time the eyewitness retells the story, the boundary becomes increasingly well defined.
b. Nora: In reality monitoring, eyewitnesses have difficulty establishing the boundary between events that actually happened and events that they simply imagined.
c. Dora Mara: A lawyer can carefully manipulate the questions, so that eyewitnesses remember the inferences, rather than events that actually happened.
d. Augusto: Eyewitnesses may believe that they saw a person's entire face, when part of the face was actually blocked from view.
Question 5In what way is the topic of boundary extension related to the topic of schemas?
a. Both of them describe a sequence of events that occur in a predictable order.
b. Both refer to situations where we can fill in missing information, either visual information or verbal information.
c. In both cases, we tend to recall schema-inconsistent information more accurately than schema-consistent information.
d. In both cases, the exemplar approach to semantic memory is more useful than the prototype approach to semantic memory.
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