PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.3: False Memory, Yield Sign, Hot Air Balloon
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Schemas: organized clusters of memories that constitute one"s knowledge about events, objects, and ideas. Provide ready made structure that allows processing of new info more quickly than without the mental shortcut. Involved in 3 memory stages: guide what we attend to during encoding, organize stored memories, and serve as cues when it"s time to retrieve info. We remember events using constructive memory: process by which we first recall a generalized schema & then add specific details. Organization: when new info fits schema it is easier to recall, yet more difficult to report exact details. Distinctiveness: info that doesn"t fit our schema but is also not interesting will be more difficult to remember. Past that we remember is influenced by our mental state & view of ourselves in the present. Course was ineffective, but those who took it rated studying habits prior to course as lower than they originally did, while those on waiting list rated their habits as being unchanged.
