PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Episodic Memory, Hindsight Bias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15 Nov 2018
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Psyc100 lecture 22 (thursday,15th november) (cont. of memory: bartlett: War of the ghosts: story difficult to understand cross-culturally. Result: when story replicated, story becomes shorter + more compatible with the subjects" cultural background. Means memory is getting reorganized according to our knowledge (explains biases) What we know is actively participating when we form memories: episodic schemata: Fragment of knowledge and you use your mind"s script to fill. Memory is perceived to not exist as physical entity rather an active reconstruction. Different results from repeated testing: reminiscence: Over repeated trials, you begin to retrieve more. Even if there was no interjected trial. Items not recalled earlier can still be remembered: hypermnesia: Recall of items on later tests that were not recalled on earlier ones: misinformation effect: Made to watch a documentary about a car crash. G1: how fast were the cars when smashed. Result: people estimated speed of car according to adjective used (judgment error).
