PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Suggestibility, Forgetting Curve

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

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Schema, what we expect to find as we explore the world, something that helps us to organize the information we receive. Writing disappears when you lift the waxed paper (imprint of the stylus remains visible on the black wax): the overlay is like our (transitory) perception of an event. Flashbulbs memories: r. brown&kulik (1977)"flashbulb memories3, memories for particularly important events can be exceptionally clear and vivid, examples of highly detailed memory traces, they took livingston"s (1967) now print! theory4 to elaborated their model (see fig 5. 3 p. 131) Kennedy and asked them how consequential they felt the event was at the time/how often they discussed the event (same procedure about other prominent figures: the students" accounts typically included information on 5 specific subjects: 1 where they were when they learned of the assassination; 2 what they were doing at the time; 4 their affect (how they felt at the time);