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A major difference in the relative ease with which you are able to fill in the missing letters in two words of similar structure (such as consonant, missing letter, double consonant, consonant, missing letter) in half-finished crossword puzzle would be from...
Which of these is NOT true of the Fells Acres children, who made accusations of horrible abuse?
Ten months after the event, what percentage of the participants in a Dutch study falsely remembered watching tapes of a cargo plane crashing into an apartment building?
When Alan Alda falsely remembered some scenes from the picnic after viewing photographs, he experienced the sin of ________________.
When participants viewed a security video of a man entering a store, then were asked to identify him from photos, in what were those who received confirming feedback NOT different from those who received disconfirming or no feedback?
What procedure did Brown and McNeill introduce to induce TOT (tip-of-the-tongue) experiences?
Schacter describes a study in which the subject is given a set of words drawn from common categories to study.first condition, the subject is asked to recall as many of the words from the list as possible. In the second condition, the subject is asked to recall as many words from the list as possible and is furnished with a couple of words fro the list. How does recall in the first case compare to recall in the second case?
What is the term for the feeling of already having experienced an event?
What is the term for the inability to remember names of familiar people?
What is the type of misattribution that can result in combining two words, such as spaniel and varnish, into Spanish?
Which of the following is not mentioned by Brown and McNeill (and others) as something frequently known by someone in the TOT (tip-of-the-tongue) state about the blocked word?
How was the critical information that led to the identification of the criminals that perpetrated the Chowchilla school bus kidnapping obtained?
What word was John Prescott looking for when he was asked about the Millennium Dome?
Which of these was not one of the memories that Stephanie Slater was able to report after her kidnapping?
In the video on Ronald Cotton, we saw that Jennifer Thompson's error misattribution was reinforced when she was told that the man she chose in the physical lineup was the same man in the photo lineup. Which of the following was suggested to eliminate this reinforcement?
Natalie wants to make sure the memory she is studying for her experiment is declarative and not implicit. Which of the following tests would you recommend her running to ensure she is measuring declarative memory?
Which of the following is not suggested as a reason that blocking on names of familiar people is more common as we age?
Who influenced Paul Ingram's daughter to accuse him of sexually molesting her?
Craig and John attended the NCAA Championship basketball game 10 years ago. Craig claims that fans rushed onto the court after the game, while John stresses that the fans did not rush onto the court. What fact of memory best supports how two people can have different recollections of the same event?
Which of these is NOT a difference between laboratory settings and real-life settings in studying eyewitness testimony?