PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Autobiographical Memory, Implicit Memory, Procedural Memory
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What do you think that would be like: highly superior autobiographical memory (memory for own life) Watch: marilu henner"s superior autobiographical memory: forgetting is adaptive, still, it can certainly be frustrating to forget something, h. m. Has a damaged memory after his hippocampus was removed. Ebbinghaus: memorized nonsense syllables and measured how long he could remember them, 19 minutes later he had already forgotten 60% of the items. Interference is a form of retrieval failure: proactive interference. Old info interferes with new info: retroactive interference. Gives you list of words, when you see a certain word forget it! . Evidence sometimes actually points to something else and not repressed memories iclicker: which of the following is not one of the theories behind why we forget: failure to encode, decay, interference. Watch: false memories lost in a shopping mall - elizabeth loftus. Memory construction errors: loftus and palmer, car accident clip.
