Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Encoding Specificity Principle, Long-Term Memory, Explicit Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Lecture outline long term memory: facilitating memory, accuracy of long term memory forgetting. The accuracy of memory: memory is not exact reproductive memory: a highly accurate, verbatim recording of an event reconstructive memory: remembering by combining elements of experience with existing knowledge. [class demonstration] schemas are mental representation that influences what we remember. Lost in the mall can you produce false memories through suggestion? false memory syndrome controversy: asked to write about 4 memories. 1 false (lost in mall: when told one was incorrect, picked one of the real memories. Individual differences some people are more susceptible to misinformation than others: 7 out of 24 participants people high at risk for misinformation acceptance have, poor general memory, high scores on imagery vividness, high empathy scores. Content accuracy technical accuracy: recalling or recognizing exactly what was experienced, generally quite poor content accuracy, recalling or recognizing the meaning or content of what was experienced, generally quite accurate.