PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Clive Wearing, Optogenetics, Episodic Memory
24 Oct 2016
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Our memories are surprisingly good in most situations. E. g. remembering how to get to work. Our memories are surprisingly bad in others. This is referred to as the paradox of memory. Research shows our memories are often astonishingly accurate. E. g. pictures presented for only a few seconds. Kim peek, the real rain man can say the day of any day of the year. The same that serve us well most of the time can (and do) fail us in certain situations. Memory illusion: false but subjectively compelling memory. Remembering words that weren"t on the list. Our brains go beyond the available information to make sense of the world. Generally adaptive, but makes prone to errors. Our memories are far more reconstructive than reproductive. When remember an event, we actively reconstruct our memories using cues are information available to us. Don"t passively reproduce memories, as if we were downloading information from a web page.
