PSYC 309 Quiz: Memory Representation.docx
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Memory for autobiographical events: the hippocampus and patient hm. Improving memory for facts: studying vs testing material, massed" vs spaced study sessions. Memory as mental time travel: brain areas used for past memory also used for imagining future events. Motor learning memory: until hm, scientists speculated that memory was widely distributed throughout the brain, hm had vague gist memories of past events, but couldn"t place them in time or construct a narrative. Flashbulb memory was what people used to think how memory worked, but now we believe in reconstructed memory. Each time reconstruct memory, mis-remember many things: distortions. Measure of accuracy and confidence in oj simpson trial: asked the students 3 days after verdict then, asked students 15 months later and compared to original. Minor or no distortions: asked students 32 months later and compared to original. Minor and major distortions: confidence of accuracy. People with high confidence had high accuracy. People with high distortions also had high confidence.
