PSYC 305L Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Interference Theory, Hypnosis
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Memory confidence matters because people put more trust in confident memories than hesitant ones a. i. 1. For example, jurys will place more confidence in someone who is more confident in their eyewitness account if they deliver it confidently a. ii. Don"t base memory on someone"s confidence because it can still be either correct or incorrect a. ii. 1. Our confidence in memory has no impact over memory: forgetting accuracy, experiences of forgetting may stem from failure in acquisition, the causes of forgetting. The amount of time that passes between the initial learning of some material and the subsequent memory retrieval of that material. b. i. 1. a. You are likely to forget more and more of the earlier event as the interval of time grows b. ii. The hypothesis that with the passage of time, memories may fade or erode. b. ii. 2. This is relevant because brain cells die off or the connections among memories may not be refreshed b. iii.
