Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Long-Term Memory, Short-Term Memory, Episodic Memory

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

Document Summary

Transience (lose access to info across time- from forgetting, interference, retrieval failure), Absent-mindedness (everyday memory failures from insufficient attention or superficial, automatic processing during encoding), Blocking (temporary retrieval failure/loss of access like tip of the tongue state in episodic or semantic memory), Misattribution (remembering a fact correctly from past experience but attributing it to an incorrect source or context) ex) remembering something that happened to someone else and thinking it happened to you. Suggestibility (tendency to incorporate info provided by others in your own recollection and memory representation) Bias (tendency for knowledge, beliefs, and feelings to distort recollection of previous experiences and to affect current/future judgements/memory) Persistence (tendency to remember facts or events including traumatic memories, that one would rather forget- failure to forget because of intrusive recollections and rumination) Memory = central to adaptive behaviour (not exact memories but approximations) Encoding: putting things into memory + research focus is on attentional and/or processing limits.