Remembering and Forgetting

Remembering and Forgetting

1. Memory Errors

   • Over-regularlization due to schema
   • Inability to remember exact wording
   • Inaccuracy of memory confidence
   • false memories are a thing
   • Misinformation effect
     • memories being altered by faulty information

2. Schema

   • How we think about something (even ourselves)
     • makes things easier to remember because they are "how they are suppose to be"

3. Existing knowledge

   • Connecting info to exiting knowledge makes the memory "stronger"

4. DMR procedure

   • Uses "to be remembered material"

5. memory confidence

   • makes memories "better"

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