PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Daniel Schacter, Ram Parity, Eyewitness Memory

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Jill Anderson

Document Summary

Transience: normal forgetting of information over time, most information is forgotten very quickly after it is encoded, over time, less and less information is forgotten. Active processes of interference (from older or more recently encoded information) and consolidation (the strengthening of memories through neural cell processes) most heavily influence forgetting: more interference + less consolidation = more forgetting. Suggestibility: others" suggestions and statements can alter our memories, alter actual memories, create false memories. Bias: our current experiences or knowledge alter our memory of a past experience, easily occurs when our impressions of people change. Persistence: experiencing unwanted memories over and over, can be debilitating if the unwanted memory is traumatic. In extreme cases, memories are a primary symptom of ptsd and can require psychological treatment. Increases retrieval of correct details of events with only a small increase in the number of incorrect details retrieved.