PHL145H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collective Memory, Hypnosis, Perseveration
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Memory is active, and it involves reconstruction on our part. We can think of memory as involving the following three stages: encoding: occurs when we perceive something, storage: which often involves, elaboration(adding information to the memory, revision( rewriting" the memory, retrieval, recall, recognition. 7. 2. 1 where things can go wrong output of memory is often different, sometimes dramatically different, from the input. The acting of perceiving something, and if we misperceive something, then our memory of it will likely be distorted. Relationship between perception and memory is a two-way street. But memory provides the basis for our perceptual set- what we expect to see it determined by our memories- so it in term influences perception. In many of the examples in this section errors pretty clearly occur during the storage phase. The ants they were told story with sentences like: The ants ate the jelly in the kitchen. This filling in of gaps in a type of inductive inference.
