Memory and Distortions

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Memory and Distortions
Maya Hill
Flashcards by Maya Hill, updated more than 1 year ago
Maya Hill
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Absent Mindedness putting 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.
Blocking temp. 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
Misattribution Memories 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
Bernstein, 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.
Suggestibility Including external info into personal recollection. Susceptible in eye witness testimony. Loftus and Palmer (hit/smashed)
Bias Consistency Bias re-write past to fit present Anxious during event. Experience anxiousness = more likely to recall memory (Wright and Morley)
Persistence Inability to prevent the recollection of unwanted memories. PTSD. Counterfactual thinking 'what might have been' Inability to forget something. Amygdala
Conclusion Schachter - memory failures in 7 dimensions. Overall between dimensions.
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