PSYC 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Autobiographical Memory, Ram Parity, Reminiscence Bump
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Chapter 8: complex events: memory errors and autobiographical memory. Intrusion errors: errors in which other knowledge intrudes into the remembered event. Nancy story: everyone read a story about nancy at a cocktail party. Half the people were told that she was pregnant. Having the extra memory lead the readers to remember more, (cid:271)ut also (cid:373)ake (cid:373)o(cid:396)e i(cid:374)t(cid:396)usio(cid:374) e(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:396)s that (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t i(cid:374) the sto(cid:396)(cid:455), (cid:271)ut (cid:373)ade se(cid:374)se i(cid:374) the sto(cid:396)(cid:455) Bransford and johnson study: one group read pounding nails and the other group read looki(cid:374)g fo(cid:396) (cid:374)ails. Asked if the(cid:455) sa(cid:449) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)d (cid:862)ha(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:863), a(cid:374)d those (cid:449)ho sa(cid:449) pou(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:374)ails were more likely to say yes, since you infer that a hammer is used to pound nails: drm paradigm. Read list of words based on a topic, but no word shown regarding the actual topic. Pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts thi(cid:374)k the(cid:455) see the a(cid:272)tual topi(cid:272), e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though it did(cid:374)(cid:859)t sho(cid:449) up, (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) sa(cid:449) words related to the topic.
