PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Connectionism, Leaky Bucket, Short-Term Memory
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Memory works primarily as if it was a reconstructive process that puts together bits of information from a variety sources. Source misattribution refers to the inability to distinguish the event you originally experienced from what you are later told about the event. A flashbulb memory is a vivid and detailed recollection of a significant event. The research on children as eyewitnesses in court cases has found: the accuracy of testimony of children is very similar to the testimony of adults. Recall method retrieves explicit memory from previously experienced info model of memory appears to most closely resemble the actual wiring of the brain is parallel distributed processing model. The decay theory suggest that memory traces fade if not accessed now and then. The process by which recent material interferes with previously learned material: retroactive interference. Confabulation belief of something happened that never did. Sensory register (memory) acts as a holding bin until we select the items for our further attention.
