PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Episodic Memory, False Alarm, Debutante
31 May 2016
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The very reconstructive processes that bestow power on ltm bring with them a degree of fragility (p. 344) Blocking temporary retrieval failure (e. g. , tot) Bias distortions by knowledge or beliefs. Repeated reproduction/serial reproduction: study material, recall once shortly after study, again at later intervals. Participants lost details (omission: info subjects failed to recall): specific names, specific events. Normalize, rationalize: recalled story incorporated more familiar patterns & knowledge replacing original content & style, bias, one of schacter"s memory sins, related to top-down processing. There was strong tendency for successive recalls to normalize & rationalize occurrences in story. Reconstructive memory: we remember some of original material, we fill in mew material from our long term memory (ltm) We construct a memory by combining elements from the original material together with existing knowledge . Bartlett obtained evidence that human memory for such meaningful material isn"t esp. reproductive, that is, doesn"t reproduce original passage in any strict sense of term.
