PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Autobiographical Memory, Long-Term Memory, Suggestibility

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Stuart Hammond

Document Summary

Length and retention: event memory: scripts for sequences of familiar actions or routine events in one"s daily world, older children can hold more information in stm than younger children, and can retain information over longer periods. Script: a representation of the typical sequence of events in a familiar context of time: can also abstract and remember general categories of information not just specific stimuli. Information about unique events, part of one"s life history: autobiographical memory: specific, personal, and long-lasting memory about the self, children at two years of age have narrative skills. Encoding: encoding: attending to and forming internal representations of certain features of the environment. A mechanism of change in information-processing theories: encoding relevant requirement of the task is critical to forming a representation of the problem, factors that determine which information gets into the memory are attention and stress.