PSY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Amygdala
9 Apr 2015
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Patients who can"t recognize objects have loss of am. Visual experience plays role in forming & retrieving am. Comparing brain activity of am & other mem. Participants viewed photos they took & other photos. Participants over 40 asked to recall events from lives. Remember recent events & events from age 10-30. Cognitive: encoding is better during per. of rapid change. Cultural life script: cult. shared expectations structure recall. Results: memories can be inaccurate, lacking in detail. Participants are very confident, mems. seem very vivid. Mems. for 9/11 more resistant to fading than other events. What actually happens + knowledge, experiences, expectations, biases Participants had to remember story from diff. culture. Mem. can be influenced by inferences based on exp. Mem. includes implied info. , consistent w/ remembered info. but not stated. Pragmatic inferences = based on knowledge gained from exp. Mem. can include info. not actually experienced bc if fits the schema.
