PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Space Shuttle Challenger, Aquatic Animal, Content Analysis
18 May 2017
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Psyc 2700 everyday memory: memory traces & memory schemas. *all content belongs to jordan richard schoenherr & where cited in lecture slides* General properties: selection subset of info selected from what"s perceived & what"s recalled, ex. The whale swims in the ocean: abstraction info recalled in gist form, ex. Whale, swims: interpretation info used to make inference, those inferences encoded, ex. Whale is an aquatic animal: integration meaning = abstract from event to form coherent whole, ex. Some events seem to be particularly memorable: ice storm (1998, 9-11 (2001), ottawa shooting (2014, ba graduation (tbd), marriage (tbd) Brown & kulick (1977) called these kind of memories flashbulb memories; suggested that special mechanism was responsible for their memorability. What"s special about flashbulb memory? (*diagram in lecture slide*) Characteristics of flashbulb memories (brown & kulick, 1977: often emotional significance attached to memories (consequentiality, having importance consequences for person, remembered for long periods of time, memories vivid & detailed.
