Psy 342 Learning & Memory

Study Guide for Exam 4

Purdy et al. Chapters 10 & 11

Chapter 10 

• Explain the difference between yes-no and forced choice recognition tests.

• *Describe the role of response bias in a yes-no recognition test.

• *Describe how an experimenter might use incentives and penalties to influence a participant’s strategies in a signal-detection-type experiment.

• How do generate-recognize models explain the word frequency effect in recall and recognition?

• Compare and contrast context effects with state dependent learning.
  

Chapter 11

• What is a “flashbulb memory”?  List some examples.

• Describe the methodology and findings of Neisser and Harsch (1992).

• Explain several methodological problems inherent in the flashbulb memory literature. 

• Explain the following statement: “Memories change because they are continually constructed and reconstructed.” 

• How can listeners and readers use script memory to infer actions not explicitly stated in a text or conversation? 

• *What is the misinformation effect?  How did Loftus and colleagues demonstrate the effect in the laboratory?

• *For amnesia patient Clive Wearing, describe aspects of memory performance that were impaired and aspects that remained relatively intact.

• Contrast direct and indirect measures of memory and give examples of each. 

• Explain the two main memory systems proposed by Schacter and Tulving (1994).  Describe subsystems proposed for these two main systems of memory.

• *Describe the factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.

• Explain the central issues in the recovered memory vs. false memory controversy.