L33 Psych 100B Study Guide - Final Guide: Interference Theory, Suggestibility
Document Summary
Seven sins of (normal) memory: transience forgetting over time. Proactive learnt time 1 creates impaired performance on task 2. Retroactive learnt time 2 creates impaired performance on task 1: blocking temporary loss of access to information in ltm. Knowing that you know something : absentmindedness due to inattentive or shallow processing, persistence wanting, but failing, to forget. Pdst: misattribution assigning a memory to the wrong source, bias. Consistency getting what you want by revising what you had (conway and ross) Hindsight i knew it all along . Vividness as misleading cue to accuracy: flashbulb memories . Stereotypical/schema-based biases: falsely remember things happening/appearing if they are part of stereotypical or schema, suggestibility. Emotion and motivation: pleasantness and intensity (high/low arousal, use self-report in conjunction with non-language of measures (physiological measures, the independence questions: can people experience positive affect (pa) and negative affect (na) at the same time. During transitions (graduation, wedding: historical and long-running controversy.
