Question :
61.In investigative questioning, how do leading questions and open-ended questions : 1231252
61.In investigative questioning, how do leading questions and open-ended questions compare?
A)Open-ended questions lead to more accuracy but fewer details than leading questions.
B)Open-ended questions lead to more accuracy and more details than leading questions.
C)Leading questions lead to more accuracy but fewer details than open-ended questions.
D)Leading questions lead to more accuracy and more details than open-ended questions.
E)Both types of questions lead equally to many details, but little accuracy.
62.Which of the following psychologists is a leading expert on eyewitness testimony?
A)Baddeley
B)Loftus
C)Lashley
D)Kandel
E)Miller
63.Which of the following calls into question the credibility of recovered memories of childhood abuse?
A)Research showing that false memories can be created under experimental conditions
B)Research showing that people who claim to be abuse victims tend to be dishonest
C)Research showing that hypnosis always heightens suggestibility to false memories
D)Research showing that the misinformation effect played a key role in several cases of false allegations
E)The horrific nature of the memories
64.In most cases, long-repressed memories of childhood abuse come to light during
A)dreams.
B)hypnosis or psychotherapy.
C)periods of relative calm.
D)everyday life tasks.
E)interviews with law enforcement personnel.
65.Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse are controversial because of all but which of the following reasons?
A)Techniques used to recover these memories may actually foster false memories.
B)Memories of childhood sexual abuse are never forgotten.
C)We lack means of differentiating true memories from false one.
D)Even people who are sure of their memories may be subject to memory distortions.
E)False memories can be implanted in people’s minds.
66.Which statement best describes the current state of opinion on recovered memories of childhood abuse?
A)Most recovered memories of childhood abuse are genuine, and these memories are credible sources of testimony in legal cases.
B)Most recovered memories of childhood abuse are genuine, but they are still not credible sources of testimony in legal cases.
C)Most recovered memories of childhood abuse are false, and they should not be considered a credible source of testimony in legal cases.
D)Some recovered memories are genuine, whereas others are false, and psychologists lack the tools to differentiate between them.
E)Some recovered memories are genuine, whereas others are false, and psychologists have now developed techniques that can reliably distinguish between them.
67.Regarding research on forgetting and decay theory, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)Ebbinghaus used himself as the research subject in his experiments.
B)Decay theory does not account for memory loss that occurs due to the passage of time.
C)Decay theory is also known as trace theory.
D)Decay theory does not help explain why some memories endure better through time than others.
E)If Ebbinghaus had studied the retention of meaningful information, he probably would have found different experimental results.
68.The idea that memory gradually disintegrates over time is the basis of
A)decay theory.
B)interference theory.
C)the semantic network model.
D)retrieval theory.
E)constructionist theory.
69.One of Ebbinghaus’s innovations was using ______ as study material for testing memory.
A)common words
B)numbers
C)foreign words
D)nonsense syllables
E)symbols
70.The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve suggests that forgetting
A)occurs slowly at first, then speeds up.
B)occurs uniformly over time.
C)occurs quickly at first, and then slows down.
D)does not occur until at least 24 hours have passed.
E)is complete within the first few hours.
