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181) Which of these age groups has the strongest memory abilities? a. Children b. Infants c. Young adults d. Older adults 182) As we age, our ability to recognize the strengths and limitations of our own memories improves. This is known as a. meta-cognition. b. transience. c. meta-memory. d. permastore. 183) Roseanne claims that she can remember instances of childhood sexual abuse that started at 6 months of age. Why are most psychologists likely to be skeptical of this and other such claims? a. Because repression inhibits the conscious recognition of traumatic events such as childhood sexual abuse. b. Because decay leads to almost immediate forgetting of newly learned information. c. Because infantile amnesia makes it unlikely that these are true memories from that age. d. Because proponents of the realism of such claims are charging less to treat the victims of this abuse than those who are dubious of the claims. 184) Which of the following is not a falsifiable explanation for why infantile amnesia occurs? a. The hippocampus is only partially developed in infancy. b. Episodic memory systems that are necessary for long-term memory are not yet formed. c. Memories of early experiences are repressed as fetal memories of negativity can be harmful. d. A sense of self is necessary to encode and store memories in a meaningful manner. 185) Our earliest memories of personal events tend to be recalled from events that occurred as early as age ________. a. 1.5 b. 2.5 c. 3.5 d. 4.5 186) Research on flashbulb memories indicates a. interference does not occur for these memories. b. decay does not occur for these memories. c. these memories are often the result of reconstruction rather than true memories. d. they are largely susceptible to the same errors as other types of memory. 187) Researchers asked students about their initial recollections a few days after the Challenger explosion and then 2 1/2 to 3 years later. The results showed that a. most students showed dramatic changes from their initial recollections to their later recollections. b. few students failed to show changes in their memories with the passage of time, and about one-third showed dramatic changes in memory. c. few students showed significant changes in their memories with the passage of time, and their initial recollections were largely accurate. d. most students showed changes in their memories with the passage of time, but only a few showed dramatic changes in memory. 188) An important source of false memories comes from a. anterograde amnesia. b. source monitoring confusion. c. retrograde amnesia. d. permastore. 189) Seth is using visualization to imagine himself throwing pitches for strikes when he plays baseball. The ability to recognize that he is constructing these images rather than recalling them from an actual game in which he played results from accurate a. memory detection. b. source monitoring. c. sensory memory. d. encoding. 190) You tell a joke to a friend and you believe you made up that joke. He tells you he told you that joke a week ago. You have experienced what memory phenomenon? a. The misinformation effect b. Cryptomnesia c. Retrograde amnesia d. Repressed memory