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Memory and Distortions
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- 1Absent Mindednessputting keys down, forgetting 10 mins later.
All ages.
Older worse than young.
Attention: old - less capacity to direct attention to task.
Attention = encoding stage.
less attention --> poor recall later.
Cues - recall. - 2Blockingtemp. in accessibility of required info.
Describing something and asking someone to recall what it is.
Info has been ENCODED and is STORED
able to retrieve parts - 3MisattributionMemories linked with wrong 'source'.
The DRM procedure (False Memory) - easy to say with confident something they haven't previously encountered.
Veridical vs. Illusory recognition.
Saying with confidence something they haven't. Deese Roediger-McDermott - 4Bernstein, Laney, Morris and Loftus (2005) False memory good?Given false memories of a negative experience with unhealthy food.
"You felt sick after strawberry ice-cream"
20% believed memory. - 5SuggestibilityIncluding external info into personal recollection.
Susceptible in eye witness testimony.
Loftus and Palmer (hit/smashed) - 6BiasConsistency Bias
re-write past to fit present
Anxious during event. Experience anxiousness = more likely to recall memory (Wright and Morley) - 7PersistenceInability to prevent the recollection of unwanted memories.
PTSD.
Counterfactual thinking 'what might have been'
Inability to forget something.
Amygdala - 8ConclusionSchachter - memory failures in 7 dimensions.
Overall between dimensions.