Suppose that Joe experienced a hurricane about 18 months ago. His cousin Sam read about the hurricane in the newspaper, but he did not experience it. Which of the following would be most likely?
a. Joe would actually recall very little information about the hurricane, due to repression and other avoidance strategies.
b. Joe would seldom think about the hurricane; if asked, however, he could accurately reconstruct the details.
c. Joe's recall would be more accurate than Sam's, even if it is not perfect.
d. Joe and Sam would have fairly similar patterns of recall, despite the differences in their experience with the hurricane.
Question 2According to the research on flashbulb memories,
a. researchers agree that flashbulb memories are indeed more accurate than memories for other important events.
b. people claim that they have accurate memories for these events, but many researchers have found that the memories contain inaccuracies.
c. flashbulb memories are accurate only for unpleasant memories, rather than for pleasant ones.
d. during the current era, no researcher has demonstrated more accurate recall for these significant life events.
Question 3According to the research and discussion about source monitoring,
a. government agencies, corporations, and the media sometimes make source-monitoring errors.
b. source-monitoring errors are generally easy to correct.
c. people are almost always accurate in recognizing which ideas from an earlier session were actually their own.
d. source monitoring occurs fairly often for visual information, but only rarely for auditory information.
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