PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypersexuality, Prosopagnosia, Semantic Similarity
24 Mar 2016
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Memory is better for meaningful significant features than for details gist is remembered better than detail. Memory is often influenced by knowledge, previous experience, expectation (i. e. , schemas) N: books but 30% of subjects falsely remember books. Way in which a question is worded can influence what is remembered due to reconstructive processes at retrieval (e. g. , filling in of details) Did you see a broken headlight? did you see the broken headlight? . When item was not in film, people claimed they saw the (nonexistent) item 7% of the time when a was used and 18% of the time when the was used. Memory for event can be influenced by misleading post- event information (info given after the event) Neutral condition: did another car pass the red datson when it was stopped at the intersection? . Misleading information replaces (overwrites) original memory, which is permanently lost. * (both groups much higher than chance: misinformation acceptance.
