PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Autobiographical Memory

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Memory"s failing price to gain crucial advantages. Retrieval paths that make memory search possible. To avoid errors restrict connections lose the ability to locate memories within long-term storage. Schemata guide your attention to what"s informative in a situation. Guide your inferences at the time of recall. Blurring together of episodes may be a blessing. Interconnected in your memory one integrated package of knowledge. Errors a side product of mechanisms that help you. To locate memories within storage/to be efficient in your contact with the world/to form general knowledge. Three factors central for autobiographical memory memory that each of us has for the episodes and events of our lives. Plays a central role in shaping how each of us thinks about ourselves and how we behave. Involvement in the remembered event, emotion + long delay. Self-reference effect information to the self is better remembered than info that"s not self-relevant.