California State University, Northridge

APPL COG 18124

Chapter 3

1)Flashbulb memories are believed to be responsible for what mental disorder?

2. We seem to have our best memory for odors from what part of our lives?
3. Why do we remember certain parts of our lives better than others?
4. If you ask witnesses the wrong question, you might trigger retrieval of a wrong answer and thus strengthen false information while blocking retrieval of the correct information. This is an effect
5. When Loftus asked people if the two cars in her scenario seemed to be going very fast when they                          each other, she found that people believed the cars were most damaged when the word in the blank was
6. Sigmund Freud attributed infantile amnesia to
7. All of these are steps in Geiselman's Cognitive Interview:
8. What happened in Illinois in the 1990's as a result of new laws requiring DNA testing for people convicted of crimes prior to when DNA testing was available?
9. What do psychologists call the very long term memory that contains things like our memory for classmates from 50 years ago?
10. Which is these is true considering children's eyewitness testimony?
11. When people in their 70's are asked about memories of their past, they remember best things that happened when they:
12. Geiselman's cognitive interview has to be used within a few days of witnessing the event in order for it to have any advantage over other recall techniques.