PSYC 334 Final: Chapter 7 and 8 Memory in the Real World

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Martinusvanden Berg

Document Summary

Chapter 7 and 8: memory in the real world. Interested in memory for meaningful material, how existing knowledge influences memory of new material. Compare of ebbinghaus (1885), interested in learning new material without the influence of existing material, hence the nonsense strings of cvc syllables. Omission of specific names and details (plain forgetting) Changing the information to make it fit with the participant"s knowledge: bias and top- down processing. Reconstructive memory: memory that results from combining elements from the original material with existing knowledge. Schema: a stored framework or body of knowledge about some topic: (a. k. a. script) Recalling or recognizing exactly what was experiences, verbatim, word-for-word memory. Important for eyewitness testimonies, remembering passwords, phone numbers. Recalling or recognizing the meaning or content of what was experience, meaningful, semantic concepts and ideas. Scripts: large-scale semantic and episodic knowledge structures that guide our interpretation and comprehension of daily experience.