Lesson 3.1.1.3.3
3.1.1.3.3 Factors affecting accuracy of memory: interference, context, false memories Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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What occurs when one memory disrupts the ability to recall another memory?
- Displacement
- Interference
- Decay
- Amnesia
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What type of interference occurs when older memories disrupt the recall of newer information?
- Cue-dependent forgetting
- Retroactive interference
- Context interference
- Proactive interference
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What type of interference occurs when new information disrupts the recall of older memories?
- Proactive interference
- Schema distortion
- Retroactive interference
- Displacement
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Environmental cues present during learning aid recall if they are also present when?
- During sleep
- Before encoding
- During recall
- After testing
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What were divers asked to recall in Godden and Baddeley's context study?
- Famous faces
- Number sequences
- Short stories
- Word lists
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What term describes a memory for an event that did not actually happen?
- Proactive interference
- False memory
- Retroactive interference
- Context effect
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In Loftus and Palmer's study, what independent variable altered participants' speed estimates?
- Verb used
- Car model
- Driver age
- Video speed
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Which memory phenomenon can be created when eyewitnesses are asked leading questions?
- Serial position effect
- Proactive interference
- Context dependence
- False memory
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Recalling words better in the room where they were learned is an example of what?
- Displacement
- Context effect
- Interference
- Reconstruction
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When new learning disrupts the recall of older memories, which factor has occurred?
- Proactive interference
- Retroactive interference
- Serial position effect
- Context-dependent decay
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Visiting a childhood home to better recall old memories demonstrates the effect of what?
- Context cues
- Schema reconstruction
- Retroactive interference
- Proactive interference
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What type of information introduced after an event can lead to false memories?
- Free recall
- Contextual cues
- Misleading information
- Acoustic encoding
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Why does recall decrease when testing occurs in a different environment from learning?
- Capacity overload
- Lack of cues
- Proactive interference
- Trace decay
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What type of interference occurs when older memories disrupt the recall of new information?
- Retroactive interference
- Contextual interference
- False memory
- Proactive interference
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Which interviewing technique is most likely to produce a false memory in an eyewitness?
- Context cues
- Leading questions
- Free recall
- Acoustic rehearsal
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Testing recall in identical versus different environments directly investigates which factor affecting memory?
- Interference
- Context
- Duration
- Capacity
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Over time, which process combines with interference to reduce the accuracy of eyewitness recall?
- Repression
- Encoding failure
- Displacement
- Reconstruction
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Participants falsely recalling broken glass after hearing the verb 'smashed' demonstrates what phenomenon?
- False memory
- Proactive interference
- Context effect
- Acoustic confusion
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Divers recalling word lists better underwater if learned underwater is an example of what?
- Context effect
- Retroactive interference
- Serial position effect
- Proactive interference
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What triggers help access stored memories that are otherwise difficult to retrieve?
- Schemas
- Leading questions
- Interference patterns
- Retrieval cues
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