Remembering Complex Events

Remembering Complex Events

1. Memory Errors

   • influence by prior knowledge
   • Helps and Hurts Memory
     • Help
       • easier locate information
     • Hurt
       • Where stops and where begins another
         • Intrusion errors
   • DRM Procedure
   • Schematic Knowledge
   • False Memories
     • misinformation effect
       • can create entire episodes

2. Avoiding Memory Errors

   • retention interval
     • initial learning - subsequent retrieval
   • decay
   • retrieval failure
     • great retention interval
   • Undoing Forgetting
     • hypnosis
     • drugs
       • do not work
   • Memory Confidence
     • detect errors
   • memory and emotions

3. Autobiographical Memory

   • self-reference effect
   • emotion
     • consolidation
   • flashbulb memories
     • clarity
       • highly emotional events
   • Traumatic Memories
     • childhood amnesia
       • sleep deprivation, head injuries, or alcohol and drug abuse
   • Long-Term Remembering
     • permastore
       • permanent storage

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