Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Autobiographical Memory, Multiple Choice, Confabulation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Marcie Penner- Wilger

Document Summary

Organized set of cues to retrieve the information. Cues in plan should be organized so that no cue is likely to be forgotten. Each cue should be able to lead to the recall of a number of items not recallable from other cues. Improvement (or decrement) in memory of having information occur within the same (or different) context. Scuba drivers learn better when the environment is the same when they encode and retrieve information, those who learned things under water remembered things under water. Study in a quiet environment, test in an environment more likely to do better. Interference-memory is there, but hard to get to. Retroactive-difficulty recalling earlier items due to interference you learn later. Proactive-difficulty recalling later items due to interference from earlier items; old stuff interferes remembering new stuff. Overwriting-the memories are changed by later events. Recall vs. recognition-carved up in terms of tasks. Conscious recollection of an experience-aware of recalling it.