PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Water Skiing, Hyperthymesia, Chaos Chaos
3 Mar 2017
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They can recall the details of every single day of their lives. But that ability has not made them incredible geniuses or scholars. Intrusion errors: existing knowledge event time new information existing knowledge. + event + new information: contributes to intrusion errors, trying to recall events, use new information to come into what they thought the event was. Example: participants told to read a passage, some read another one as well that was more scandalous. Recall elements not even mentioned; made it a more elaborate story; fill in those gaps: better memory, more intrusions (theme condition, both passages) vs. worse memory, fewer intrusions (neutral condition, single passage) Learn list of words: craving, famine, appetite, emptiness, famished, gluttony, ravenous, void, want, munchies, sweet tooth, desire, starved. Recall the words: people are likely to remember with high confidence that hunger was on the list; it (cid:449)as(cid:374)(cid:859)t the(cid:455)(cid:859)(cid:396)e just (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith it.
