PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Classical Conditioning, Executive Functions, Recovered-Memory Therapy
22 Mar 2016
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Supressing retrieval shuts out the intrusive memories, restoring control over the direcion of thoughts and emoional well-being. Any serious an general treatment of forgeing therefore needs to consider the moivated involvement of individuals as conspirators in their own memory failures. Life is good, or memory makes it so. There is a general widespread feeling of well-being and it oten deies people"s objecive circumstances. Research suggests that memory may contribute to this perceived well-being. Posiivity bias: tendency, increasing over the lifespan, to recall more pleasant memories than neutral or unpleasant ones. Study: paricipants were shown a mixture of pleasant, neutral and unpleasant scenes, as paricipants got older their memories became more biased to the pleasant scenes. Their recogniion was not biased but recall was. Emoion regulaion: goal-driven monitoring , evaluaing, altering, and gaing one"s emoional reacions and memories about emoional experiences. When repressed content pops into consciousness again: repression vs suppression.
