PSY270H5 Final: Final Exam Lecture Notes
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Parents telling you story of you from age 2, at age 6-7, which you remember but you don"t remember actual event: participants have difficulty dating the memory. Learning objectives: define the reminiscence bump and explain 4 theories for why it happens, memories of life events tends to peak in adolescence or early adulthood this is known as reminiscence bump. If you revert from the cultural expectation, you will elaborate on that and remember as a time in which there was expectation you didn"t meet. Inconsistencies in memory tend to match people"s schemas* when it happens to you, the stories are more consistent and accurate. Schema of university will include everything we know and think about university: scripts knowledge base for an event, what to do in a situation, script about what to do at university, ex. Thinking you read something in textbook but it"s actually something your friend told you about the textbook: false memory elicited by drm procedure.
