PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Hot Air Balloon, Forgetting Curve
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Connections serve as retrieval path that guide you search through memory. As ur adding more and more links btwn the bits of this episode and that episode, ur gradually knitting these 2 episodes together. As a result, u may lose track of the boundary btwn episodes and ur likely to lose track of which bits of info were contained within which event. Thus you become vulnerable of wht we might think of transplant errors in which a bit of info encountered in one context is transplanted into another context. Memory connections both help and hurt recollection. Help connections serving as retrieval paths allows you to locate info in memory. It can hurt because they can make it difficult to see where the remembered episode stops and other, related knowledge begins. As a result, the connections encourage intrusion errors where other knowledge intrudes into the remembered event. Shows list of words that are related.
