Remembering Complex Events

Remembering Complex Events

1. Errors

   • Memory Errors
     • Forget Events
     • Store Events Incorrectly
     • Intrusion Error
     • Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) Procedure
     • Schemata
     • Bartlett
   • Why do these errors occur?
     • New information forms connect with old information
     • No clear boundaries between memories

2. Misinformation Effect

   • Sources
     • Media Reports
     • Interviewer's Questions
     • Co-Witnesses
     • Source Monitoring Problem
   • Retention Interval

3. Avoiding Memory Errors

   • Decay
   • Interference
   • Retrieval Failure

4. Detecting Memory Errors

   • Confidence
   • Emotions
   • Remember/Know Judgement

5. Autobiographical Memory

   • Memory and the Self
     • Self-Reference Effect
     • Self-Schema
   • Emotions and Memories
     • Consolidation
     • Flashbulb Memory
     • Consequentially
   • Traumatic Memories
   • Repression
     • Retrieval Failure