PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Knitting, Amobarbital, Interference Theory
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As you add more and more links between the bits of this episode and the bits of that episode, you"re gradually knitting these two episodes together. As a result, you may lose track of the boundary between episodes, and, more precisely, you"re likely to lose track of which bits of information were contained within which event. Thus you become vulnerable to what we might think of as. Transplant errors, in which a bit of information encountered in one context is transplanted into another context. This, too, can produce transplant errors elements that were part of your thinking get misremembered as if they were actually part of the original experience. It seems, then, that memory connections both help and hurt recollection. They help because the connections, serving as retrieval paths, allow you to locate information in memory. But the same connections hurt because they can make it difficult to see where the remembered episode stops and other, related knowledge begins.
