PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 7.3: Repressed Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

The key terms used in discussing how memories are organized and constructed. How schemas serve as frameworks for encoding and constructing memories. How psychologists can produce false memories in the lab. What you have learned to judge the reliability of eyewitness testimony. Much of the way we store memories depends on our tendency to remember the gist of things. Schemas: orga(cid:374)ized (cid:272)lusters of (cid:373)e(cid:373)ories that (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitute o(cid:374)e"s k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge a(cid:271)out e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts, o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts, and ideas: when we encounter familiar events or objects, these schemas become active and they affect what we expect, pay attention to, and what we remember. Without the schema it would be difficult or impossible to organize and encode memories about the self. Memories are not stable, and change overtime. False memory: remembering events that did not occurs, or incorrectly recalling details of an event. Wording of questions can affect responses (smashed vs bumped vs hit vs collided: these changes the estimates of speed)