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PSYC 325 Otago Questions with correct answersFreud's notion of repression Correct Answer-Traumatic events are
banished from conscious recall until such time as we are able to cope
with them, emotion seeps into everyday life, when uncovered, memories
are in pristine condition
depression, anxiety, phobias, sexual difficulties, feelings of failure
Correct Answer-"Symptoms" lists in abuse self-help books include (5):
prior assumptions, confirmation biases, plausibility-enhancing evidence,
adopting and confirming belief in abuse Correct Answer-4 dangerous
therapy aspects
guided imagery, rebirthing, hypnosis, age regression, dream work, past
life analysis Correct Answer-6 questionable therapy techniques:
abuse did take place, it was forgotten and inaccessible for some time, it
was later remembered. Correct Answer-Pope & Hudson 1995's Three-
pronged evidence approach (most repression support studies do not meet
these criteria):
Retrospective studies Correct Answer-In this type of study, individuals
are interviewed today, asked about history of abuse, asked about their
memory continuity.
,Prospective studies Correct Answer-In this type of study, individuals
with a documented history of abuse are interviewed many years later to
see if they report it
Childhood amnesia, repression is not only reason someone won't report
abuse, participants never directly asked Correct Answer-Problems with
Williams 1994 study on women with documented records of sexual
abuse between ages of 10mths and 12 years, interviewed 3 times around
17 years later, where 38% did not mention the abuse, held up as
"evidence" for memory repression:
abuse did not occur, but there is memory for the "trauma" Correct
Answer-even when memories are shown to be false, still have to prove
that: (2 things)
False memories for trauma, retractors, laboratory research Correct
Answer-evidence for False memories: (3 things)
Quality of the memories Correct Answer-Many people retracted
allegations of "repressed abuse" due to the nature of the: ______ __ ___
__________
suggestion, plausibility, belief, memory construction, source monitoring
error Correct Answer-(non-linear) recipe for false memory formation (5
things)
, script knowledge Correct Answer-The knowledge about what kind of
thing WOULD happen; affects whether or not false memories can be
implanted, and how plausible the person thinks it is to have happened
(Pezdek, Finger, Hodge 1997)
False narrative Correct Answer-studied by Loftus & Pickrell (1995),
adults interviewed about childhood events, but one is false, interviewed
using guided imagery, 25% "remembered" by 3rd i/v. (_____
__________)
media Correct Answer-effect of seeing a disney ad on confidence that
shaken hands with Bugs Bunny at Disney world is example of influence
of the ______ on memory
50 (%) Correct Answer-Percentage people ended up with partial or
complete memory for childhood hot air balloon ride after several
interviews (Wade 2002)
media, photos, imagination Correct Answer-3 things that can all increase
likelihood of false memories being believed
DRM Paradigm Correct Answer-investigated by people such as susan
clancy whereby some people are more prone to false memories than
others, look at source error etc.
False Memory Syndrome Correct Answer-term coined by Kihlstrom
(1998), condition in which a "person's identity and interpersonal
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