PS102 Lecture Notes - Information Processing, Post-Traumatic Amnesia, Prospective Memory
Document Summary
The capacity to retain and retrieve information. The changes in the structures that account for this capacity. Reconstructive processes the case of h. m. and memory impairment. Many metaphors over time that don"t acknowledge that memory is selective. Told stories with unfamiliar content; when retold the unfamiliar content was replaced with familiar content; the re-teller thought that were. Reconstruction often involves source misattribution: the inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere. Flashbulb memory: characterized by surprise, illumination, and seemingly photographic detail. Unusual, shocking, or tragic events may hold a special place in memory. Events seem frozen in time and detail. Errors: many errors in memories of people for 9/11, less likely to make errors when the event happens to you rather than around you. Confabulation: confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you. Belief that you remember something when it never actually happened.
