Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Ource, Flight Controller, Source-Monitoring Error

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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A nationwide poll has shown that a substantial proportion of people have erroneous conceptions about the nature of memory. Autobiographical memory: what has happened in my life. Autobiographical memory memory for specific experiences from our life, which can include both episodic and semantic components. Studied by showing that people who have lost their visual memory due to brain damage experience a loss of am. Cabeza"s experiment supports this: showed that a person"s brain is more extensively activated when viewing photographs taken by the person than when viewing photographs taken by someone else. People are better at remembering transition points. Reminiscence bump the enhanced memory for adolescence and young adulthood found in people over 40. Hypotheses have been proposed to explain the reminiscence bump: self-image, cognitive, cultural life script the life span cause stronger encoding of memories. Self-image hypothesis proposes that memory is enhanced for events that occur as a.