PNB 2XA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Egg Salad, Police Lineup, Knitting
10 Apr 2016
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Chapter 7: remembering complex events people thought there was a film about a plane crash when there actually wasn"t. two third of the participants gave details about what they had seen. In another study, participants were asked to wait briefly in the experimenter"s office, then they were taken to another room where asked to describe the office. The recollections were based on their prior knowledge of an academic office. For example, people thought there were shelves filled with books in the office even though there wasn"t. Memory is a vast network and within this network, there are no boundaries keeping the memories separate the problem with connections: as you make more connections, you re essentially knitting episodes together. Transplant errors: bit of information encountered in one context is transplanted into another context. Understanding both helps and hurts memory intrusion errors: errors in which other knowledge intrudes into the remembered event.
