PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: False Memory Syndrome, Tunxis Community College, Procedural Memory

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: O'brien

Document Summary

Amygdala probable location for emotional association (especially fear-based memories) Procedural memories appeared to be stored in cerebellum (the little brain attracted to the brainstem. New memories seem to be consolidated in hippocampal region (hippocampus takes sensory info and helps process it) Then stored in different areas of the cortex including the frontal and temporal lobes. Constructive processing- memory retrieval process in which memories are built" or reconstructed, from information stored during encoding. Memories are sketchy reconstructions of the past that may be distorted or include details that did not. While accessing memories, we filter of fill in missing pieces of info to make our recall more coherent construct memories using both stored and new info. Misinformation effect- incorporating misleading info presented after an event into ones" memory of the event: source monitoring error- when a memory derived from ones source is. False memory syndrome- creation of inaccurate or false memories through suggestion by others, often while under hypnosis.