PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ram Parity, With Confidence, Shape-Memory Alloy
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Prior knowledge and specific experience leads to accurate memory. Sometimes peoples" recall is often in line with their expectations and not with reality: participants were asked to sit in an office for several seconds and then asked what items an office contains. Prior knowledge tells us that offices contain a desk and chair. Participants answered this however, there were no books in shelves like they normally are in offices. Even though there were no books in the office, participants were biased by their expectations and claimed to have remembered seeing books. Within the network of interconnected nodes, there are no boundaries keeping memories of one episode separate from another episode. The density of connections holds together the various elements of episodes. Memory connections help and hurt recollection: help: they serve as retrieval paths, hurt: make it difficult to see where episode stops and other knowledge begins.
