PSYC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ram Parity
Document Summary
Memory errors: misinformation effect: presented suggested information after the memory has been formed, which alters the already made memories, why misinformation effect happens. Memory trace replacement hypothesis: mpi (misleading post-event information) impairs/replaces memories that were formed during original event. Retroactive interference hypothesis: interferes with memory, but original memory is not replaced. Source monitoring error: remembering information, by misattribute where the memory came from. Memory errors: can remember false autobiographical memories with suggestive information. Can be convinced to remember events that never actually happened. Experiment: participants had conversation with experimenter where experimenter added new events that never actually happened in their childhood. When later discussed, participants believed that the events actually happened and elaborated on these events. Conclusion: memory is suggestive, subjective, and malleable: pictures can create memories; present people with fake pictures or pictures during that time period to influence their memories, eyewitness testimonies. Memories are suggestible and can change over time. People believe that eyewitnesses are never wrong.
