PHL145H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Moon Pie
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Cant remember this stuff so how reliable is stuff like eyewitness testimony. Memory is active and it involves reconstruction. The output of memory is often different from the input, errors can happen in all stages. The details usually don"t matter so we forget them. Its often difficult of even impossible to check a memory against what really happened. Perception affects what we see, but what we"ve seen affects how we"ll perceive things. Over time, when memories our in our brains, they are active and we elaborate and revise the info we store. Since this occurs outside realm of consciousness, hard to hell if it occurs in storage or retrieval. The drive for humans to understand and require explanation for things we don"t understand sometimes leads us to pattersn and reasons where they don"t exist. And to construct explanations even when theres not enough information to warrant them. Subjects in an experiment heard a story that contained sentences like:
