Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clive Wearing, Free Recall, Alan Baddeley

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Transience: lose access to info across time (forgetting, interference, retrieval failure) Absent-mindedness: everyday memory failures in remembering info &intended activities, probably caused by insufficient attention or superficial automatic processing during encoding. Blocking: temporary retrieval failure or loss of access, tip-of-the-tongue state, either episodic or semantic memory. Misattribution: remembering a fact correctly from past experience but attributing it to an incorrect source or context. Suggestibility: tendency to incorporate info provided by others in you own recollection &memory representation. Bias: tendency for knowledge, beliefs &feelings to distort recollection of previous experiences, affect current &future judgments &memory. Persistence: tendency to remember facts or events (including traumatic memories) that one would rather forget, failure to forget because of intrusive recollections &rumination. Memory is not designed to remember specific facts &details. We need our memories to be flexible &to stretch the truth: that"s learning. Rare condition for people who can"t forget anything.