PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Memory, Confabulation, The Fading
Document Summary
Reconstructing the past: the capacity to retain and retrieve information, the changes in the structures that account for this capacity, reconstructive process. In pursuit of memory how to remember things better. Memory and the power of suggestion memories can be changed. Reconstructing the past: memory: the capacity to retain and retrieve information and the structures associated. Memory and the power of suggestion: they eyewitness on trial. 4: long-term memory: the memory system involving long-term storage of information, unlimited capacity, storage thought by some to be permanent. Information organized indexed: how is information organized, semantic categories: a large grouping into which items similar in some characteristic can be places [ex. Chair belongs to the category furniture: familiarity, relavince, allows us to process more than the 7-10 words, sound or look: tip-of-the- tongue [tot] states, contents of long-term memories, procedural memories: memories for the performance of actions or skills.
