PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psychogenic Amnesia, Episodic Memory, Sigmund Freud
12 Jul 2016
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Chapter 8 learning objectives: discuss the reconstructive nature of memory and the phenomena of flashbulb memories and confabulation. Not everything that occurs to us is saved for later use in our memory. Our minds would be cluttered with junk if it was not selective (ex. We would know prices from years ago, a phone number only needed once) Sir frederic bartlett (1932) discovered the memory to be a reconstructive process. Confabulation is when you confuse an event that had happened to another person with an event that happened to you. This can cause you to believe to remember an event that did not actually happen to you. Memory is vulnerable to suggestion to ideas put into our mind after the event we are involved with. Eyewitnesses" testimonies can turn out to be mistakes (ex. Unfamiliar with other ethic groups to ignore other distinct features besides race) Form of questions and added comments can cause mistakes (changing.
