PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Retrograde Amnesia, Elizabeth Loftus, Anterograde Amnesia
22 Mar 2016
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Serial position effect: remembering something at the beginning and end of a sequence and forgetting info in between. Primacy effect: remember things at the beginning. Recency effect: remember things at the end. Decay theory: memory traces fade over time. Interference theory: other items in storage interfere with what you"re trying to recall. Proactive interference: previously stored info interferes with new info you"re trying to remember. Retroactive interference: new info interferes with trying to recall old info. Memories more recent are more susceptible to being forgotten. Made people watch a video of a car crash. Afterwards, asked how fast they thought the car was going based off a one word difference in a question (ex: bumped vs smashed vs collided) Then asked if there was broken glass on the ground. If the word smashed was in the question: they said yes. If the word bumped was in the question: they said no.
