PSY270H5 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Using Knowledge in the Real World.docx
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Chapter 8 using knowledge in the real world. Schacter identified the seven ways in which long-term memory fails us. Just when you need to remember something you can"t. The tendency to lose access to information across time, whether through forgetting, interference, or retrieval failure. Absent-mindedness everyday memory failures in remembering information and. Situations in which you remember something, but the memory involves an error. Persistence intended activities, probably caused by insufficient attention or superficial, automatic processing during encoding. Temporary retrieval failure or loss of access, such as the. Tot phenomenon, in either episodic or semantic memory. Remembering a fact correctly from past experience but attributing it to an incorrect source or context. The tendency to incorporate information provided by others into your own recollection and memory representation. The tendency for knowledge, beliefs, and feelings to distort recollection of previous experiences and to affect current and future judgments and memory.
