Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Autobiographical Memory, Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Explicit Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Transience: the tendency to lose access to information across time, whether through forgetting, interference or retrieval failure. Absent-mindedness: everyday memory failures in remembering information and intended activities, probably cause by insufficient attention. Blocking: temporary retrieval failure or loss of access, such as tip-of-the- tongue state, in either episodic or semantic memory. Misattribution: remembering a fact correctly from past experience but attributing it to an incorrect source or context. Suggestibility: the tendency to incorporate information provided by others into your own recollection and memory representation. Bias: the tendency for knowledge, beliefs, and feelings distort recollection of previous experiences and to remember facts or events, including traumatic memories. Persistence: the tendency to remember facts or events, including traumatic memories that one would rather forget, that is, failure to forget because of intrusive recollections and rumination. We sometimes forget or fail to realize that memory is not designed to remember specific facts and details.