Long term memory

Long term memory

1. Eye-witness testimony

   • Wells & Olsen (2003)
     • high % of mistaken eye-witness reports
     • Confirmation bias
   • Loftus & Burns (1982)
     • eye-witness of violent crimes
     • weapon focus
   • Post-event & pre-event information
     • Loftus (1992)
       • misinformation acceptance
         • greater tendency as time from the event increases
     • Johnson, Hashtroudi & Lindsay (1993)
       • source monitoring framework
       • source misattribution

2. Semantic memory

   • mental thesaurus
   • Distinct semantic categorisation
     • Living vs non-living
     • famous faces vs animals vs tools
     • man-made items vs natural items
     • Why these categories?
       • Sensory-functional theory
         • visual perception vs functional perception animate vs inanimate

3. Episodic memory

   • Episodic/semantic distinction?
     • episodic
       • referent is oneself
       • organised temporally
       • autonoetic
       • more susceptible to forgetting
       • context dependent
     • Semantic
       • referent is general knowledge
       • noetic
       • not organised temporally
       • relatively permanent
       • context independent