PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Autobiographical Memory, Self-Reference
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Memory errors: some initial examples: in 1992, an el cargo plan lost power and crashed into a building killing 43 people in amsterdam. 2/3 of these participants remembered seeing the film and most of them confidently discussed details of the crash. Was this bc they were emotional: is memory more accurate when the questions come after a shorter delay, brewer and treyens: participants were asked to wait briefly in the experimenter s office prior to the procedures start. H. w they also said they saw books on the shelveswhen actually there were none. The drm procedure: deese roediger mcdermott (drm) procedure - a commonly used experimental procedure for eliciting and studying memory errors. In this procedure, a person sees or hears a list of words that are related to a single theme; however the word that names the theme s not itself included.
