PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: False Memory, Psych, Leading Question

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Catherine Rawn

Document Summary

False memory: thinking you heard something that wasn"t said: related things stored nearby one another. Memory construction: recall not an exact replica of original events, recall is a construction built and rebuilt from various sources, often fit memories into existing beliefs. Eyewitness testimony: memory can be distorted as people try to fit new info into existing schemas, schema is your understanding about how things work, eyewitnesses usually see something complex just once then have to remember it. People fill in memory gaps with plausible guesses and assumptions. 911 example, two different locations on which they were confident they knew where they were when it occurred: no correlation on vidiness of memory and correctness, vauge memories cant be incorrect , vivid memories aren"t nessesarily correct. Distortion of memories: mental schemas, influence memory by adding. People remember only a few details of a situation and then reconstruct the missing portion according to their expectations.