PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Traffic Collision, Perfect Pie, Sensory Memory
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What and how we think depends on our memories. Self-concept: memories about experiences and conclusions you have drawn about yourself due to these experiences. We tend to deny or distort memories because they don"t fit with our self-concepts. Pollyanna effect: we tend to remember experiences that reflect our positives and tend to forget our negatives. Most people pick the most vivid one (a option), but the answers are b. Availability heuristic: we judge something more likely/ frequent based on something more available in memories (being more vivid) Change blindness blindness: people refusing to be blind to changes in the environment that happened before their own eyes. In the hypothetical memory timeline, time 1 is learning or acquisition of information. In second part, it is the retention interval. Time 2 is retrieval, which proves that someone learned or retained the information. Associated networks: memories that are similar are stored nearby (ex: think about your kindergarten teacher.