NATS 1860 Lecture Notes - Human Brain Project, Repressed Memory, Facial Recognition System
22 Mar 2013
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Memory can be distorted by how retrieval is done: emotional content of the memory can affect the retrieval of memory. Leading questons can bias recall of the facts: how good are witnesses if there is a bias when you want to create your own causation, you can influence your memory simply by biasing. The way you ask the question influences the answers people integrate factors into memory that they forget the original source. They don"t associate the question with the statement: people"s confidence in their memory is not correlated with that accuracy. This is the knowledge of a typical situation, common event or object: these are socially shared. Schemas influence memory through encoding or learning of information. Information can be congruent with the schema, they are more likely to be recalled than congruent information. There was an experiment that showed people would remember likely things to be found, but not find specific deficiencies.
