PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Flashbulb Memory, Encoding Specificity Principle, Caffeine
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Mnemonics: mental strategies designed to improve your memory. We will talk about a few, broken down into various categories. Visioning a grocery list as a person (the groceries make up the parts) Retrieval: process of transferring information from ltm back into working memory (consciousness) Most of our failures of memory are failures to retrieve. Term flashbulb memory was introduced by brown and kulik. Flashbulb memory refers to your memory for the circumstances in which your first learned about a very surprising and emotionally arousing event. Many people believe they can accurately recall all minor details about what they were doing at the time of this event. Studied people"s ability to recall details about the terrorist attacks of. Doesn"t seem to be a special type of memory that utilizes a special memory system. Flashbulb memories grow less accurate with the passage of time (just like. Shows that enhanced emotional reaction to some event does not guarantee better retrieval of that information.
