PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Daniel Schacter, Suggestibility
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Memory can be stunningly accurate, like people who remember every detail of every day of their lives, or stupidly bad, like forgetting a person"s name who was introduced to you 2 seconds earlier. Daniel schacter has identified 7 sins of memory . Blocking we have it on the tip of our tongue, but can"t get it. Misattribution our memories cross wires as to who said it or if it was a dream. Suggestibility our memories become susceptible to suggestion by others. Bias our current feelings/beliefs can influence memories. Persistence certain memories, usually bad, won"t go away. Most of what we sense, we don"t notice. And, much of what we notice we don"t encode (thus don"t remember it). As we get older, our ability to encode declines. An example of sensing much but encoding less is seen in the penny. Most people incorrectly identify a real penny if its components are switched around.
