PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Hindsight Bias, Clive Wearing
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Lecture 7: long term memory: everyday memory and memory errors. Memory for events and issues related to yourself. It includes memories for specific experiences and memory for the personal facts of one"s life. Do you own a car? personal fact. These memories are multidimensional included emotional, spatial components. Experiment: greenberg and rubin (2003) patients who can"t recognize objects also experience loss of autobiographical memory. Visual experience plays a role in formulating autobiographical memories. Damage to visual areas of cortex impairs memory. Damage to visual areas of cortex impairs memory; aging, and injury. Relationship between people with bad autobiography memory in detail b/c of visual imagery. Viewed photos either taken by participants (a-photos) and taken by someone else (l-photos). Few days later the participants saw both sets again and recalled event. People with dementia with extensive damage vs. no damage at all. Seeing photos that he or she took of themselves resulted in much better memory than if other"s took it.
