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Match the definitions with the correct terms. -The partial or complete loss of memory (due to nonorganic causes) for threatening information or traumatic experiences.


A) Repression
B) Retroactive interference
C) Decay theory
D) Psychogenic amnesia
E) Proactive interference

F) All of the above
G) B) and E)

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Sensory memory holds multiple sensory images just long enough for us to see a "double exposure" and know that the scene we are viewing is accurate.

A) True
B) False

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________ is a memory system that includes short-term memory and information retrieved from long-term memory.


A) Working memory
B) Procedural memory
C) Semantic memory
D) Declarative memory

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Match the following definitions with the correct terms. -Association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new information to make it memorable.


A) Maintenance rehearsal
B) Elaborative rehearsal
C) Short-term memory
D) Working memory
E) Consolidation
F) Sensory memory
G) Procedural memory
H) Episodic memory
I) Semantic memory
J) Deep processing

K) B) and F)
L) A) and I)

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Our discussion of memory began with the case of Thomas Sophonow,convicted of the murder of Barbara Stoppel on the strength of eyewitness testimony.This eyewitness testimony illustrated that:


A) our confidence in our memories is a reliable guide to their accuracy.
B) almost all eyewitness testimony is erroneous.
C) ethnic differences may increase mistakes made by eyewitnesses.
D) flashbulb memories of traumatic circumstances are accurate.

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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