PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Absence Seizure, Traumatic Brain Injury, Long-Term Memory
Document Summary
Memory misconceptions: memory is not like a recorder. Fallible and prone to distortions and suggestions. Beneficial for us to forget because otherwise we"re always overwhelmed with information. There are some people who practice and do things strategically to improve their memory. Normal is quite broad: forgetting occurs gradually. Happens quickly and then a little bit more after that. Has implications on things such as: confidence is a reliable indicator of memory accuracy. It"s a feeling so you think you know it. If you repeatedly ask someone the same question, you can increase the person"s confidence in the answer but it doesn"t make the answer accurate. Liberal bias vs. conservative bias: yes vs. no, traumatic memories can be repressed and recovered years after they occur. People don"t forget: studies on kids who gets abused. Hypnosis or claims to recovery doesn"t have third party evidences. True memory is corroborated with third party evidences.
