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Memory Distortions and Cognitive Errors Quiz

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

Recency bias

Explanation

Recalling recent events more accurately than earlier ones.

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

Misinformation effect

Explanation

Incorporating misleading information into memory after an event.

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

Consistency bias

Explanation

Distorting memories to align with current beliefs or attitudes.

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

Egocentric bias

Explanation

Believing one experiences more events than others.

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

Overconfidence bias

Explanation

Overestimating the accuracy of one's knowledge or judgments.

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

Memory reconsolidation

Explanation

Altering existing memories with misleading information exposure.

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

Source amnesia

Explanation

Mistakenly attributing a memory to the wrong source, event, or context.

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

Explanation

Perceiving events as more predictable after they've happened.

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

Explanation

Overestimating recent events' importance compared to earlier ones.

#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?

Self-serving bias

Explanation

Remembering events consistent with self-concept and forgetting others.

#11

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

Self-serving bias

Explanation

Attributing success to internal factors and failures to external ones.

#12

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

Schema-driven distortion

Explanation

Distorting memories due to schemas or stereotypes influence.

#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?

Consistency bias

Explanation

Perceiving past knowledge or beliefs as consistent with current ones.

#14

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

Assigning a memory to the wrong source

Explanation

Assigning a memory to the wrong source.

#15

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

Spacing effect

Explanation

Recalling an event enhances subsequent recall accuracy for related events.

#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?

Confabulation

Explanation

Believing memory is accurate when it's not.

#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

Explanation

Judging easily retrievable information as more probable or important.

#18

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

Confabulation

Explanation

Incorporating imagined or suggested details into memory.

#19

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

Anchoring bias

Explanation

Relying on the first encountered information when making decisions.

Memory Distortions and Cognitive Errors Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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