PSYC 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Synesthesia, Context-Dependent Memory
16 Feb 2018
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Heuristics for regularization regularizing things to make them easier to remember: distance. More intervening cities = longer estimates for distance. Assumption that boston is closer than charlotte would be incorrect it"s farther but has fewer cities between them. Stamp and sundial from mckeldin are technically the same distance apart from one another but it seems shorter from stamp. Border bias when an estimate for distance is longer if you have to cross a border. Landmark effect shorter distance estimates traveling towards landmarks: shape. 90 degree angle heuristic misremember things as having a 90 degree angle because it"s easier to remember (like a roundabout) Symmetry heuristic tendency to remember things as being more symmetrical than they really are: relative position. Rotation heuristic tendency to misremember a tilted image as being more vertical or horizontal. Thinking san diego is more west than reno because you mentally rotate california in your head to make it completely on the left of nevada.
