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Joe witnesses a hit-and-run accident. He tells the police that the hit-and-run driver was in a red car. It was later determined that the car was actually blue. Joe remembered it as being red because he thinks that people who drive red cars tend to be reckless. This is an example of the memory sin of

High levels of stress enhance the function of the brain’s _____ but tend to disrupt the functioning of the _____. This pattern may lead to some of the characteristics associated with repressed then recovered memories.

In the imagination inflation experiment, simply imagining how an event might have occurred: 

Which of the following cannot be explained as a failure in the source monitoring process?

Sins of omission are to sins of commission as ________ is to _______.

Describe the difference between an “estimator variable” and a “system variable” in eyewitness memory/identification, giving an example of each within your definitions. 

Explain Loftus’s metaphor of the effects of misinformation on memory for an event being like a drop of milk being added to water.

Hypnosis is one reliable way to “unlock,” or access accurate and detailed versions of memories that have proven difficult to retrieve.

In a classic study by Carmichael, Hogan, and Walters (1932), participants were given ambiguous drawings with one of two different labels. Later, they were asked to draw the figures they had encoded. During this retrieval phase, they ________, demonstrating the memory sin of ________.

You patient has a long leg cast on the left leg, but is allowed to bear weight while ambulating. During the swing phase, what motion will likely be necessary in order for the person to advance the limb forward?