PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Daniel Tammet, Eyewitness Memory, Episodic Memory
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Cognitive interview: police: use various cues and strategies to improve eyewitness memory, however, this is not reliable if there is no independent way to verify it. (even if it adds. Types of long term memories: procedural (skilled): long term memories of conditioned responses and learned skills (e. g, driving ), declarative (fact): part of ltm that contains factual information. Redintegration: memories that are reconstructed or expanded by starting with one memory and then following chains of association to related memories, remembrance of things past. Elaborative encoding: daniel tammet has good memory for language and numbers, using synaesthesia. Measuring memory: recognition memory: previously learned material is correctly identi ed. So we can guarantee that these words are equally novel: encoding failure: when a memory was never formed in the rst place. Curve of forgetting: graph that shows the amount of memory info remembered (nonsense syllables) after varying lengths of time.