PSYC 213 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Interference Theory, Episodic Memory, Pseudoword
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In psychology, we have no idea how memories are stored. We don"t know exactly how they are translated and where they are in the brain. We know that there are a lot of unknowns. Every experience that you have leaves some kind of trace. Every face that you see, everything that you do, every word that you hear leaves some kind of trace. These things accumulate, and your memory of them becomes more and more vivid. You see something, snap a photo, think (cid:498)now print! (cid:499), and store that picture in. Researchers however found that there are phenomena that can"t be described by your memory album. This says that memory is an accurate representation of the event. One thing is flashbulb memories: important emotional events are better remembered (or at least people feel as though they remember these flashbulb memories better) these two models. Example of flashbulb memories: 9/11, michael jackson dying, the.
