Psychology 2135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory, Totalitarianism
3 Mar 2020
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Flashbulb memories: vivid memories of signi cant events, result from impactful, emotionally charged events, ex. major world events, hearing about a celebrity"s death, rst studied by brown and kulik - studied the day jfk was assassinated, ex. 1: just as prone to misattributions - not like photographs, despite how vivid ashbulb memories are, they are still prone to errors and. Traumatic events: usually well-remembered (sometimes too strongly - ex. Ptsd: but in some cases fade with time, little evidence, however, that traumatic memories can be completely repressed, usually occurs during psychotherapy - is the therapist being suggestive, controversial issue. Biased memory and the self: people also selectively forget information, ex. university students asked to recall grades from high school, recall for as: 89% accurate, recall for ds: 29% accurate, ex. Conclusion: we have a memory advantage for materials related to the self, but our self-related memories are a mix of genuine recall and reconstruction/revision.
