PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Autobiographical Memory, Egg Salad, Cognitive Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

In this chapter we consider some of the errors that can arise when people try to remember episodes that are related to other things they know and have experienced. We also consider some of the factors that are directly pertinent to memory as it functions in day- to-day life. Similar effects are observed under experimental conditions. Brewer & treyens (1981) found that participants who had been asked to wait in an office (for roughly 35s) recalled seeing books and other items typical of an office, even though these items had not been present. The observation of intrusion errors errors in which other knowledge intrudes into the remembered event supports this hypothesis. As an example of intrusion errors, when reading a story we may believe that propositions we inferred while reading the story were actually presented in the story itself (owens et al. , 1979) Some participants were given a prologue that offered more understanding as they read the story (theme condition).