PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Source-Monitoring Error
Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
Section 8.3:
• Constructive Nature of Memory:
o what people report as memories are constructed based on what actually
happened plus additional fators, suh as the person’s knowledge, eperienes,
and expectations
▪ mind CONSTRUCTS memories based on different factors
o Bartlett’s War of Ghosts experiment shows support for this idea
▪ asked subjects to read a story and then asked them to recall it as
accurately as possible after
▪ Used repeated reproduction in which the same subjects tried to
remember the story at longer and longer intervals after they had first
read it
• One of the first experiments to use this technique
▪ Results also showed that at longer times after reading the story, most
sujets’ reprodutions of the stor were shorter than the original and
contained many omissions and inaccuracies
• remembered stories also tended to reflet the sujet’s OWN
CULTURE
▪ Conclusion =
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