Activity for the book
My Psychology
My Take: 5.3 Memory Mistakes
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My Take
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Question 1
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You are asked if the loveable children’s literature character Curious George has a tail, and you answer that he does. You also talk about seeing illustrations of the monkey hanging from a tree by his tail, but are then surprised to learn that Curious George was never drawn with a tail. This is an example of:
Choice
A
,
the misinformation effect.
Choice
B
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a false memory.
Choice
C
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a flashbulb memory.
Choice
D
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source inaccuracies.
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Question 2
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Which of the following would be most likely to enhance a person’s inaccurate recall of a given event, leading to incorrect memories in the future?
Choice
A
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taking immediate written notes about how an event occurred
Choice
B
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talking to others who were at the event to get multiple perspectives
Choice
C
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seeing videotapes of a given event that demonstrates how that event occurred
Choice
D
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telling the story several times, making it more believable to oneself
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Question 3
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The woman in the video who had an inaccurate memory of how she got the scar on her face made which mistake?
Choice
A
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She thought that she had 12 stitches when she only had 4 to close the cut on her eye.
Choice
B
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She thought that she got blood all over her t-shirt, when in fact there was almost no blood coming out of her cut.
Choice
C
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She thought that her brother had pushed her down when, in fact, it was her friend who did so.
Choice
D
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She thought the ambulance took her to the hospital when it was really her mother who drove her there.
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Question 4
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Your Take!
Do you think that our memory of an event is actually remembering the event itself, or are we just remembering the
last time
that we remembered the event?
Question 4
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