PSYCH 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Autobiographical Memory, Paleontology
15 Feb 2018
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The traces are not simply revived" or reactivated" in recall; instead, the stored fragments are used as info to support a new construction. It is as if the bone fragments used by the paleontologist did not appear in the model he builds at all. - as indeed they need not, if it is to represent a fully fleshed-out, skin-covered dinosaur. The bones can be thought of, somewhat loosely, as remnants of the. Remembering is an active process of reconstruction. Memories are reconstructed on the basis of partial cues and the latent knowledge in the connections b/t neurons. Schemata (knowledge) play a role in learning and memory. Encoding: knowledge helps to construct the info. Retrieval: aspects of stimulus and knowledge reconstruct the event. 7) schemas organize our knowledge and our memories. If the balloons popped, the sound wouldn"t be able to carry, since everything would be too far away from the correct floor .
