PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Forgetting Curve, Suggestibility, Interference Theory
11 Dec 2017
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Idea that memories are forgotten with the passage of time. Can go from being reproductive to being reconstructive - filling in gaps: absent mindedness. People are not paying attention when information is first encountered. Taking pictures for memories- they remember they took a pic, but not of what the pic was taken of. Availability - whether a trace is present somewhere in memory. Accessibility - idea that the trace is somewhere in memory but the issue is whether people can successfully get to it or not: blocking. Idea that people have trouble accessing a desired memory because other memories get in the way. Cue overload - more things that are associated with a memory cue, the less effected that cue would be: misattribution. Idea that people can remember something but misattribute where it came from. Memories can be implanted from outside sources, possibly causing correct information to be forgotten: bias a.
