True-False Questions 1. In ancient times philosophers compared memory to a soft wax tablet that would preserve anything imprinted on it. 2. An accurate way to conceptualize memory is to think of it as a video camera that records each moment of a person’s life. 2 3. When Sir Frederic Bartlett asked people to read unfamiliar stories and then to recite the stories to him later he found that the details were often changed to make the story coherent. 4. We encode our memories as exact replicas of our sensory experiences. 5. The inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were later told about an event is called source misattribution. 6. Source misattribution occurs when a person experiences the partial loss of memory with no apparent biological cause. 7. Vivid recollections of emotional events are called “flashbulb memories.” 8. Flashbulb memories unlike other memories are accurate records of the past. 9. Confabulation is especially likely to occur if you have thought about the imagined event many times. 10. When a witness expresses complete certainty about his or her report the memory is almost always reliable. 11. Researchers have been able to induce memories of events that never happened. 12. Preschoolers’ memories are more vulnerable to suggestive questions than are the memories of school-aged children. 13. Children can be induced to report traumatic experiences that never actually happened to them. 14. Conscious intentional recollection of an event is called explicit memory. 15. Procedural memory is defined as the conscious intentional recollection of an event.
