Memory Distortions and Cognitive Errors Quiz

Test your knowledge of cognitive psychology with questions on memory distortions, biases, and cognitive errors. Challenge yourself now!

#1

Which cognitive error involves the tendency to recall the most recent events more accurately than earlier events?

Misinformation effect
Recency bias
Source amnesia
Stereotyping
#2

Which memory distortion involves incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event after the event has occurred?

Cryptomnesia
Misattribution
Suggestibility
Misinformation effect
#3

Which type of cognitive error involves the distortion of memories to make them more consistent with current beliefs or attitudes?

Memory reconsolidation
Consistency bias
False memory
Stereotyping
#4

What is the term for the cognitive bias where people tend to believe that they personally experience more events than others?

Egocentric bias
Confirmation bias
Availability heuristic
Fundamental attribution error
#5

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate the accuracy of one's own knowledge or judgments?

Overconfidence bias
Egocentric bias
Confirmation bias
False consensus effect
#6

What is the term for the phenomenon where existing memories can be altered if a person is exposed to misleading information?

Memory consolidation
Memory distortion
Memory reconsolidation
Memory encoding
#7

Which type of memory distortion involves mistakenly attributing a current memory to the wrong source, event, or context?

False memory
Cryptomnesia
Source amnesia
Deja vu
#8

What is the term for the tendency to perceive events as being more predictable than they actually are, after the events have occurred?

Hindsight bias
Anchoring bias
Framing effect
Recency bias
#9

Which cognitive error involves the overestimation of the importance of recent events compared to earlier events in forming one's beliefs and predictions?

Recency bias
Confirmation bias
Stereotyping
Hindsight bias
#10

What is the term for the tendency to remember events that are consistent with one's self-concept and forget events that are not?

Egocentric bias
Selective memory
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
#11

Which cognitive bias involves attributing one's success to internal factors while attributing failures to external factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
#12

Which cognitive error involves the distortion of memories due to the influence of schemas or stereotypes?

Stereotyping
False memory
Schema-driven distortion
Selective memory
#13

What is the term for the cognitive bias where people perceive their knowledge or beliefs at the time of an event as being consistent with their current knowledge or beliefs?

Confirmation bias
Consistency bias
Availability heuristic
Suggestibility
#14

In the context of memory distortions, what does the term 'misattribution' refer to?

Assigning a memory to the wrong source
Forgetting a previously learned information
Inability to recall any events
Creating false memories
#15

In memory distortions, what is the term for the phenomenon where recalling an event enhances subsequent recall accuracy for related events?

Serial position effect
Spacing effect
Primacy effect
Retroactive interference
#16

What is the term for the cognitive error where individuals believe they remember an event exactly as it happened, even when their memory is inaccurate?

Flashbulb memory
Source amnesia
Confabulation
Memory reconsolidation
#17

What is the term for the phenomenon where information that is easier to retrieve is judged as being more probable or important?

Availability heuristic
Recency bias
Framing effect
Confirmation bias
#18

Which memory distortion involves the incorporation of imagined or suggested details into one's memory of an event?

Stereotyping
Misattribution
Confabulation
Primacy effect
#19

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to rely on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

Confirmation bias
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
Hindsight bias

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