Joey Is a Pre-Med Student Who Has Just Been Studying

question 54

Multiple Choice

Joey is a pre-med student who has just been studying about intestinal disorders.He goes out with his friends to eat at a pub,and later that day he develops severe stomach cramps and diarrhea.He starts wondering whether he has colitis or another intestinal disorder.This example best demonstrates how

• A)we tend to underestimate the frequency with which we experience symptoms.
• B)information about illnesses can cause us to underestimate our symptoms.
• C)we tend to interpret symptoms according to familiar disease schemas.
• D)overt symptoms are more likely to be interpreted as illness compared to subtle symptoms.

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Definitions:

Source-Monitoring Error

A type of memory error where an individual misattributes the origin of a memory, confusing the source from which information was acquired.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.

Pseudoforgetting

The phenomenon where information is thought to be forgotten but actually was never learned effectively in the first place.

Ineffective Encoding

The failure to store relevant or necessary information in memory due to insufficient attention or misunderstanding.