ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Processing Fluency, Hindsight Bias, Prospective Memory
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Omis sion: when you need to reme mber some thing you cant. Difference from standard episodic memory situation: more meaningful material that has to be learned, greater emphasis on accuracy/inaccuracy. Commis ssion: rememb er somethi ng but memory involves an error. Facts about the world: many memory studies include luring people into making mistakes as there are many situations in real life in which related information lures us into remembering something. Idea that what people remember from meaningful material is basic idea not superficial aspects. Proposition: unit that codes meaning, represent the meaning of single, simple idea about which you can make false/true statements used to quantify the meaning. Some propositional theories capture memory as a set of networks of interconnected meaning. Five semantic cases: relationships or connections of meaning (1) relation: topic or major event (2) agent: actor or person (3) patient/recipient: one who received the action (4)location (5) time.
