Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Confabulation, Explicit Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynda Hutchinson

Document Summary

Refers to the capacity to retain information and also to the structures that account for this capacity. Gives us a sense of personal identity; each of us is the sum of our recollections, which is why we feel so threatened when others challenge our memories. Source misattribution (source confusion) the inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere: ashbulb memories descriptions/memories of emotional and important events. Older people who lived through world war ii retained accurate memories for decades, of the day that the radio announced liberation. However, they are not so accurate, typically can only remember the gist of startling, emotional events witnessed or experienced. After a while errors in memories start to arise. 3. the event is easy to imagine: imagining an event takes little effort, then we are especially likely to think a memory is true rather than false.