PSY372H1 Lecture Notes - False Memory, Semantic Network, Spreading Activation
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Romney has the source of information being external to himself, he kept hearing this event from others so he thinks he experienced" this event, but he was born 4 years after the event. Source monitoring = ability to keep track of where memories come from: not necessarily explicit: implicitly hearing sth from someone, some kind of heuristics of how to act. Internal sm based on an action, reality sm based on an event instead of actions; You can have thoughts that are semantically related: cognitive operations = mental processes that are associated with a memory, eg deliberation. Internal sm doesn"t have mental involvement: external sm: cognitive processes don"t apply, reality sm: imagined events involve more mental operations. Read old & new non-famous & famous names, then test after 24 hours: reading non-famous names increases familiarity: famous names 60% chance of identifying as famous, non-famous names 10%, non-famous names familiar 20%; People are judged as famous because their names are familiar.
