PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Semantic Network, Procedural Memory, Interference Theory
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Memories from past may not be accurate b/c info processing model is not done efficiently in young age i which it must be efficient to form ltm. It is plastic and can be influenced by others. This encoding in toddler hood is not efficient though. It can be changed by outside forces over time. But she says it"s most unreliable: oj simpson trial: his dna was all in the crime scene. But no eye witness testimony, wasn"t charged: jury pays less attention to scientific/forensic evidence. Encoding: transforming info into a form that can be entered and retained in the memory system. Retrieval: recovering info stored in memory to be con aware of it. You have your own thoughts and beliefs that encompasses your bias of the info. You don"t have a lot of schemas in ltm so especially susceptible in childhood. Ltm are like books in library, in order to retrieve it you go to that location.
