A participant is given a list of word “web, insect, bug, fright, fly, arachnid, crawl, tarantula, poison, bite, creepy, animal, ugly, feelers, small.” The participants are then asked to recall the words from the list. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Because the words are emotional, false memories are unlikely to occur.
b. There are so few words that false memories will only occur in amnesiacs.
c. False memories will occur for several of the words.
d. The word “spider” could be considered a critical intrusion.
Ans: d
You might also like to view...
Many phobias can be traced back to a time when the person was frightened, injured, or upset by a particular stimulus, especially in childhood, and would, thus, be based on
a. inherited familial patterns. b. emotional conditioning. c. operant extinction. d. instrumental acquisition.
If the letters OBACKFIBHJCA are rearranged into HBO-JFK-CIA-ABC, they become much easier to store in short-term memory. This phenomenon illustrates the usefulness of __________ in short-term memory.
A. rehearsal B. chunking C. peg-word systems D. the method of loci
In the movie DareDevil, the main character suffered an injury to his eyes, and for the rest of his life was able to "see sounds." His interpretation of one sort of sensory input as another type of perception demonstrates __________
a. synesthesia b. sensory adjustment c. perceptual adaptation d. pragnanz perception
In the 18th and 19th centuries, a popular method for determining personality was to examine a person's facial features for certain characteristics. This practice was called __________.
A. physiognomy B. physiology C. phrenology D. psychoanalysis