PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Processing Fluency, Eyewitness Memory, Explicit Memory
4 Sep 2016
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Semantic memory research: testing knowledge subject already has. Episode memory task: present to-be learned information, then test memory of said information. Deliberately meaningful: passages of texts, or natural events. What we remember is influenced by semantic knowledge. Conceptually driven processing: already known information influences new memories. Memory is fragile: we can remember many things but tend to misremember. Transience: interference, retrieval failure or genuine forgetting bc not rehearsing. Absent minded: losing track of info, details, etc. Prospective memory: studying remembering to do something in the future. Blocking: loss of access to info ex tip of tongue phenomenon. Suggestibility: incorporating information supplied by other sources into memory. Bias: like top down processing, the distorting influences of knowledge, beliefs, feelings on recollection of previous experiences. Persistence: intrusive recollection of past events, failure to forget. Testing memory several times with short periods between tests, performance improves- hypermnesia. If time intervenes between, greater forgetting across time.
