PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Frederic Bartlett, Confabulation, Explicit Memory
29 Dec 2015
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Memory refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information, as well as the structures that account for this capacity. Memory provides us with competence and a sense of personal identity. Today, people compare memory to a tape recorder or video camera that automatically records every moment of their lives. This thinking is wrong memory is selective. Sir frederic bartlett asked people to read long unfamiliar stories and then retell the stories, and made errors about details that did not make sense to them and added other information in to the stories. This prompted bartlett to state that memory is largely a reconstructive process. When we remember complex information, we typically alter it to help us make sense of it. Source misattribution: an inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about it elsewhere. Flashbulb memories are vivid recollections of emotional events: shocking or tragic events especially when they affect you personally (ex.
