PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Childhood Amnesia, Episodic Memory, Hypnosis
17 Nov 2016
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Traumatic experiences are buried/inaccessible from memory: delayed recall can occur, sometimes a que is required to retrieve a. Evidence shows that traumatic memories are actually remembered vividly traumatic/stressful memory: memories are reproductive. They"re not reproductive but rather reconstructive: details fade with time. Semantic memory- memory for facts, basic information (e. g. first president, middle name, etc. ) Episodic memory- memory for life events: not reliable after about 2 weeks of time, when episodic memory has limitations, we begin to rely on semantic memory to reconstruct details that we can"t recall. Reconstruction can result in distorted, inaccurate or false recall. Attention- narrowing focus to a specific range of stimuli while filtering out others: multitasking has a very detrimental effect on memory. Levels of processing theory- different depths of processing based on level of encoding. Semantic- deepest, thinking about the content and the actions the word represents: methods to improve encoding.
