PSY-3217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Episodic Memory, Eyewitness Memory, False Memory
16 Aug 2016
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Remembering complex events: goal of understanding memory: understanding how we remember and misremember on a day-to-day basis. Much early research used simplistic stimuli (e. g. , lists of unrelated words, pictures of objects, etc. ) Misremembering (changing or adding) details of an event. Example: going to the store memory for specific instance; knowledge of items needed to id & encode them. Under what circumstances do we misremember: memory errors: initial examples. Look at picture of office, recall test after from brewer & treyens, 1981. Remembering as reconstruction: general question: is memory reproductive (bottom-up only) or reconstructive (bottom- up + top-down), broad context for discussion: what is the nature of memory retrieval, reproduction: retrieving encoded information from memory. Based on bottom-up information only: reconstruction: retrieving a combination of encoded information and general knowledge to fill in the gaps . Understanding: benefits and costs: how to test hypothesis: Set up a situation that encourages connection of studied material to prior knowledge.
