PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Memory Consolidation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2H03
• Professor: Ellen Maclellan

Document Summary

Lecture 18 intro to concept categorization autiobiographical memories: this fits into our rich, detailed self-schema. Our own memories of ourselves better remembered than other memories. However, we tend to remember" what we think we know. We also have a bias for a positive view of ourselves traumatic memroies: However: there exists cases where people have no memories of traumatic events. Best explanation: the extreme emotion from the event disrupts the processes needed for memory consolidation, thus, memory never gets encoded. Accuracy and adequacy: we do make errors, but generally, our memories are really good. We often rely on heuristics to recall information. Selection of what to encode, store and retrieve. Idea that human memory designed to predict the future: more connections better chance of retrieval. What makes for good connections: the most meaningful connections. New memories should be able to interface with old memories: wewant to be able to organize new memories according to existing knowledge structures.