PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Phantom Limb, Interference Theory, Xerography
21 Mar 2013
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Reappearance hypothesis: the hypothesis that memory is a re-experiencing of the past: so memories are not altered. If memory is schematic, then it relies on fragments to make new constructions. Flashbulb memories: vivid, detailed memories of significant events: this is evidence for the pure trace memory, assassinations of important people are good to study this. Kennedy s assassination people tend to report the following: Their location when they found out about it. Finding: the more consequential the event was rated, the more often it had been rehearsed (discussed with others). Natural experiment: the challenger space shuttle explosion: participants were given questionnaires 3 days and 9 months after the event, the 2 accounts weren t always consistent, the 9-month account was more general. This would be due to inferences and guesswork: mccloskey s suggestion: we remember the details of a flashbulb event because those details are the links between our own histories and the history of the world.
