PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eleanor Rosch
31 Mar 2014
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Memories can be lost for some time and then recovered: mainly painful events candidates for repression are well remembered, when painful events are forgotten the rate of forgetting seems similar to rate at which ordinary events are forgotten (not what we would expect if painful memories are especially likely to be banished by things like repression, at least some of the recovered memories may have been remembered all along and provide no evidence of repression appeared to have lost memories because person refused to discuss memories for many years, pattern of memories lost and then found may just reveal effects of ordinary retrieval failure mechanism can hide memories from view for a long period of time, and memories reemerge when suitable cue is present, we need to acknowledge possibility that as least some of recovered memories are in fact, false memories.
