Memory Distortions Quiz: Test Your Cognitive Psychology Knowledge

🧠 Quick Study Guide

• 🕰️ Source Monitoring Error: Misattributing the source of a memory. For example, remembering a story as your own when you actually heard it from someone else.
• 💭 Misinformation Effect: Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
• ✨ False Memory: A fabricated or distorted recollection of an event. These can feel very real.
• 📝 Suggestibility: The tendency to incorporate information provided by others into your own recall and memory representation.
• 🔄 Reality Monitoring Error: Difficulty distinguishing between memories of real events and imagined events.
• 🎭 Bias: The influence of current beliefs and feelings on the recall of past events. This could be consistency bias, change bias, or egocentric bias.
• 💾 Cryptomnesia: Unconscious plagiarism where you believe an idea is original when it's from your memory.

🧪 Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following best describes the misinformation effect?
   1. A) Forgetting the source of a memory.
   2. B) Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
   3. C) Creating entirely false memories of events that never occurred.
   4. D) Remembering events as more consistent with current beliefs than they actually were.
2. What is source monitoring error?
   1. A) The tendency to recall events as more dramatic than they were.
   2. B) Misattributing the source of a memory.
   3. C) The inability to form new memories.
   4. D) Remembering the gist of an event but not the specific details.
3. Which type of memory distortion involves creating entirely false memories?
   1. A) Suggestibility
   2. B) Bias
   3. C) False Memory
   4. D) Misinformation Effect
4. Suggestibility in memory distortion refers to:
   1. A) The inability to remember new information.
   2. B) The tendency to incorporate information provided by others into your own recall.
   3. C) Forgetting the source of a memory.
   4. D) The distortion of memories due to emotional trauma.
5. What is reality monitoring error?
   1. A) The inability to distinguish between real and imagined events in one's memory.
   2. B) The tendency to remember only positive events.
   3. C) The distortion of memories due to the passage of time.
   4. D) The creation of false memories based on suggestions from others.
6. How does bias affect memory?
   1. A) It prevents the formation of new memories.
   2. B) It causes complete amnesia.
   3. C) It influences the recall of past events based on current beliefs and feelings.
   4. D) It enhances the accuracy of memories.
7. What is cryptomnesia?
   1. A) A type of amnesia where one forgets their own name.
   2. B) Unconscious plagiarism where you believe an idea is original when it's from your memory.
   3. C) The inability to remember faces.
   4. D) A condition where memories are stored in a coded format.