PS 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Forgetting Curve
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Errors that can arise when people try to remember episodes that are related to other things they know and have experienced. Asked did you see the television film of the moment the plane hit the apartment? . Majority said yes (there was no such video footage) And majority also provided details about footage (and were confident" in those details) Participants who had been asked to wait in an office they recalled seeing books and other items typical of an office, even though these items had not been present. Overtime our existing knowledge, and a memory of an event get jumbled up. Past information intrudes on the existing information. Unless made aware of the anomaly we can"t differentiate. Theme condition (nancy @ cocktail party example) Participants who had the theme conditioned performed almost 50% better than the group that did not receive the theme condition.
