Ninety-Year-Old Ben Enjoys Talking About Growing Up on a Corn

question 113

Multiple Choice

Ninety-year-old Ben enjoys talking about growing up on a corn farm in Illinois.Given his age, Ben's episodic memory is likely to be:

• A)highly accurate
• B)less accurate
• C)more accurate than his semantic memory
• D)equally accurate as his semantic memory

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Definitions:

Witnesses Recall

The ability of witnesses to remember and recount details of events, often used in the context of legal proceedings and psychology.

Memory Reconstruction

The process by which memories are not played back exactly as they were encoded but are reconstructed based on existing knowledge, expectations, and other memories.

Bartlett's Research

Frederick Bartlett's studies focused on memory and cognition, demonstrating that memory is reconstructive and influenced by personal biases.

Construct Memories

The process of forming new memories by integrating sensory information with existing knowledge and concepts.