PSY 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mnemonic, Confirmation Bias, Cognitive Psychology

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 308
• Professor: Dana Williams

Document Summary

We tend to fill in missing information in memory with information that. Fits with our belief system or was acquired after the event occurred. Memory is influenced by : prior knowledge, stereotypes and prejudice, inference and distortion, real and false memories. Interference theory of forgetting: a theory of how we forget that blames forgetting to interference and displacement of the to-be-remembered items by other material that has been previously learned. The errors we make can provide clues to how it is organized (e. g. , recall in long-term memory associative networks) E. g. if your partner calls you by his/her former partner"s name = he/she was thinking about him/her or he groups your information with his/her ex in his/her memory. A memory process in which a number of related items are stored and retrieved as a unit in order to facilitate retrieval. Metamemory: a person"s knowledge about his/her own memory system.