PSY100H1 Study Guide - Representativeness Heuristic, Explicit Memory, Dennis Amiss
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Psy100h lisa zhao 2011 | page 1. How do events affect you? memory systems work against you in remembering bad things. Emotional distress caused by memory traumatize us. Your memory is a part of your identity. You"re a diff. person without your memories. We do not file our memories under some sort of code system, like old library card stacks. We store memories based on meaningful associations. When recalling memory, we recreate the events and are misinformed and guided by top down processing biases and affects the way we remember things. The more ways in which you think about the material, the deeper your processing will be and the more easily you will remember the material later. Ways to think about the material would include asking questions such as: The ease with which we can retrieve a memory depends on the number and types of associations that we form with that memory.