PSYCH 2H03 Lecture 7: Implicit Memory
9 Mar 2017
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Familiar sentences were judged to be more credible even when participants were cued (e. g. males are lying) not to be believe particular sentences in the rst list. Searching a storehouse of records of past events. But this is not the way memory works. Recollecting the past is a process of reconstruction. The past is created or inferred, not re- experienced. Chapter 8: remembering complex events: a small number of people have hyperthymesia. Memory errors, memory gaps: an example of a memory error. Crashed into side of building in amsterdam. More than half the participants reported seeing the crash on tv. Existing knowledge event time > existing knowledge you"re gonna use existing knowledge to ll gaps of information that is missing. New information > existing knowledge will ll in the gap from what occurred recently. She looked around the room to see who was there. She went to talk with her professor .
