PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Autobiographical Memory, Hyperthymesia, Interference Theory
23 Nov 2017
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Chapter 8: remembering complex events: hyperthymesia, (cid:862)superior auto(cid:271)iographi(cid:272)al re(cid:272)all(cid:863, able to recall every single day of their lives. These individuals vivid, detailed memories sometimes provide uncontrollable associations. Memory errors: some initial examples: participants recall was often in line with their expectations and not with reality. Intrusion error a memory error in which one recalls elements that were not part of the original episode: participants who had seen the prologue made 4 times as many intrusion errors. The drm procedure: parti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts are just as (cid:272)o(cid:374)fide(cid:374)t i(cid:374) their (cid:862)false(cid:863) re(cid:272)all as the(cid:455) are i(cid:374) their (cid:272)orre(cid:272)t (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455) of genuine list words, drm procedure a commonly used experimental procedure for eliciting and studying memory errors. In this procedure, a person sees or hears a list of words that are all related to a single theme; however, the word that names the theme is not included.
