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This activity contains 10 questions.

	Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you is not uncommon. What is this type of "recollection" called?   Source amnesia Childhood amnesia Confabulation repression

	In a class study of leading questions, Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer (1974) showed people short films depicting car collusions. Some viewers were asked "About how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?" Other viewers were asked the same questions, but the verb changed. What verb produced the highest average speed estimates?   collided smashed bumped hit

	In a study of social pressure and children's false allegations (Garven et al., 1998) researchers asked preschoolers whether a visitor had committed aggressive acts-acts that had not actually occurred-using social-influence techniques. What percent of the children said "yes" in response to the allegations suggest to them?   10 percent 80 percent 30 percent 50 percent

	Which memory system can be measured by priming?   Implicit memory Short-term memory Explicit memory Sensory memory

	Which memory system holds sensory information for a very brief retention of images?   Flashbulb memory Sensory memory Declarative memory Short-term memory

	When people try to recall a list of items immediately after learning it, what are the results?   They tend to remember the first and last items best and the middles ones worst. They tend to remember only the first items. They tend to remember only the last items.

	Because memory is reconstructive, it's easy to believe you remember something that never actually happened.    True  False

	Children never lie about having been sexually molested.    True  False

	Recall typically is easier than recognition.    True  False

	Most cognitive researchers agree with Freud that experiences of early childhood are too traumatic to remember.    True  False

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