PSY-P 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eyewitness Testimony, Isight, Eyewitness Memory
13 Feb 2017
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Memory as construction: reading / experiencing information to remember later= encoding: making inferences naturally, unconsciously, effortlessly & are wrapped into the memory for the event. Inferences/what we heard, remember, experiences are not different. But confidence betrays us in flashbulb: not enhanced actual recall of memory. Study guide part (cid:858)(cid:523)ct"d(cid:524): 0(cid:859)c memory as reconstruction. Memory as reconstruction: we make up memories as we go along, we are not remembering as much as we are making it up. We recall information by what we remember & what we infer must have happened. We forget certain things & there are gaps in recall, so we fill in the gaps with inferences. E(cid:454): (cid:449)e(cid:374)t out to di(cid:374)(cid:374)er, ask if so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e paid the (cid:271)ill, do(cid:374)"t re(cid:373)ember but answer yes bc generally assumed. Top down processing: perception is not just stimulus but expectations of what its like to be in the real world in the particular contxt that we are in now.
