PSYC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Arris, Suggestibility, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Memory for specific experiences from our life: the lab meets the real world, ecological validity- do the results in the lab have anything to do with the outside world, episodic & semantic characteristics, deals with the (cid:494)self(cid:495) Multidimensional nature: spatial, emotional & sensory components, cabeza et al (2004, given a camera & told to take pictures of landmarks on campus, shown lab photos & asked if it was their photo or not. Not a lot of difference in the parietal lobe, more in the hippocampus when looking at their own. Memory over lifespan: events that tend to be remembered, personal milestones. Traumatic events (amygdala: transition points (when things are going to change) Self image hypothesis- period of time when you(cid:495)re. Cognitive hypothesis- period of rapid change followed figuring out your own identity by stability. Cultural life script hypothesis- culturally expected events structure recall (ex.
