Which of the Following Claims About Memory Accuracy Is NOT

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which of the following claims about memory accuracy is NOT true?

• A) Participants' confidence in their false memories is often just as great as their confidence in their accurate recollections.
• B) Children may be even more vulnerable to the "planting" of false memories than adults.
• C) When a participant's response is based on a false memory, the response is likely to be given just as quickly as it would be if based on an accurate memory.
• D) Participants are sometimes mistaken in their recollection of an event's minor details, but do not create an entirely new false memory.

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Definitions:

Factorial Designs

Experimental designs that allow investigation of the effects of multiple factors (independent variables) and their interactions on one or more outcomes (dependent variables).

Real-world Conditions

Circumstances or situations that occur in everyday life outside of controlled or laboratory settings.

Independent Variables

Variables that are manipulated or changed in an experiment to observe their effects on dependent variables.

Curvilinear Relationships

Relationships between two variables where the strength and/or direction of the association changes over the range of the variable's value, forming a curve rather than a straight line.