BCS 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Future Orientation, Episodic Memory, Social Cognition
13 Dec 2016
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Background: self-projection: ability to shift perspective from present to alternative perspectives. Can be in terms of self, others. Episodic memory: past orientation, true past event, constructive, high accuracy, first person, remembering. Navigation: present/future orientation, perceived as alternative location/personal viewpoint, constructive mode, high accuracy, first/third person, way finding function. Theory of mind: present/future, perceived as others" views, medium accuracy, social cognition function. Prospection/retrospection thinking of possible events, low accuracy, planning/problem solving function: retrospection: use of past info to inform future decisions, behaviors. Combination of episodic memory + applications to future situations: prospection: ability to pre-experience future by simulating it in our minds. Have never encountered this situation can"t necessarily draw on past experiences: can both occur simultaneously, use affective reactions to mental simulations to predict how accurate these reactions would be when event actually happens, errors of prospection. Simulations are unrepresentative in thinking of past events, we focus on more salient memories.
