Psychology 2135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Leading Question, Hot Air Balloon, Amygdala
3 Mar 2020
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Memory errors: drawing a blank, sometimes referred to as the sins of memory , remember, but very uncertain, mis-remembering details, assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source, remembering events that never happened at all. Schemas and memory errors: recollections often in uenced/biased by prior knowledge (schemas, ex. Sleep (theme words: aka drm errors , ex. Cohen (1981: watched a video of couple interacting and then given a quiz about what they saw in the video. Thursday, february 28, 2019: ex. memories regarding 9/11, most memory is captured in the hippocampus, highly emotional memories are also helped by the amygdala, we don"t forget actual event (ex. Tell me what happened : note: in majority of crimes, identity is not an issue as the victim knows the perpetrator (ex. the harvey weinstein cases) Suggestibility and false memories: false memories for entire episodes can be implanted in people"s minds, ex.
