PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Long-Term Memory, Hindsight Bias, Epilepsy
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The reconstructive nature of long term memory retrieval. The retrieval of memories in which those memories are altered, revised or influenced by newer information. Misleading information presented after event can affect memory accuracy for event. Subtle differences can cause someone to reconstruct a memory. The farther you are from the event that you are trying to recall, the greater the gaps and the more likely for this effect to occur. Why they try to keep witnesses to a crime apart or interview people separately. The failure to properly store information for future use. Something has happened in the memory process toward long term memory that hasn"t allowed the retrieval to be accurate. The greatest amount of forgetting occurs in the first hour after. Rehearsal is needed to properly store information. What matters is being able to differentiate between values not the differences within a value. Physical change in the brain that occurs when a memory is formed.
