PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Yield Sign, Interference Theory, 6 Years

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Gillian Rowe

Document Summary

Recollected events that belong to person"s life. Visual experience plays an important role in forming autobiographical memory. Patients who had damage to the visual cortex lost autobiographical memory (visual stimuli was not present to serve as retrieval cue) Reminiscence bump enhanced memory for adolescence and young adulthood that can be demonstrated in people over 40 years old life-narrative hypothesis people assume their life identities during this time (lots of firsts ) Cognitive hypothesis encoding is better during periods of rapid change followed by period of stability. For people who immigrate later in their life the reminiscence bump shifts (predicted by hypothesis) Cultural life script hypothesis events are easier to recall when they fit the cultural life script for that person"s culture. Flashback memories person"s memory for hearing about shocking, highly emotional events. Flashback memories are remembered for long periods of time, highly vivid and detailed. Now print mechanism is involved with flashback memories -they are like photographs that resist fading.