PSY 324 Week 4 Quiz - 100% Correct Questions & Answers

PSY 324 Week 4 Quiz Question 1 1 out of 1 points In terms of pleasant information or events, our memory for the information or events is most consistent with which of the following statement according to the research literature? Selected Answer: The more pleasant the information/event is, the better we remember it. Answers: The degree of pleasantness of the information/event has no bearing on our memory of it. The less pleasant the information/event is, the better we remember it. The more pleasant the information/event is, the better we remember it. We do not remember pleasant information/event as well as we do unpleasant information/event. • Question 2 1 out of 1 points “I remember vividly exact where I was and what I was doing when I heard about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The TV news was on and I was in the kitchen preparing food for my kids. I remember feeling extremely angry and sad at the same time.” This is an example of flashbulb memory. What is the “flashbulb” in this recollection? Selected Answer: The shooting at the school Answers: The location in which the person saw the news The shooting at the school The strong emotions felt at the time The vividness of the memory • Question 3 1 out of 1 points A person witnessed a terrible car accident and was subsequently questioned by the police. If you are a consulting psychologist for the police department, what would you tell the investigator about the eyewitness’ memory about the accident? Selected Answer: The emotional nature of the accident may enhance the eyewitness’ memory for some aspects of the accident itself but decrease memory for the background. Answers: The emotional nature of the accident creates a snapshot-like photographic memory for an eye-witness so they remember every detail about the accident and its background. The emotional nature of the accident enables the eye-witness to capture all the details in the background of the accident even though they wouldn’t remember anything about the accident itself. The emotional nature of the accident induced in eye-witnesses a complete amnesia of the event and the background. The emotional nature of the accident may enhance the eyewitness’ memory for some aspects of the accident itself but decrease memory for the background. • Question 4 1 out of 1 points The “generation effect” in memory research refers to the phenomenon that ______. Selected Answer: Information generated by the subject himself/herself is better remembered than information presented to the subject by the experimenter.