PSY372H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cryptomeria, Spontaneous Recovery, Cryptomnesia
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The ability to keep track of where memories come from. Requires people to take source and content information and integrate them into a common memory trace. Later there is an active search of memory for source information. Source of information: controlled memory process, involves the frontal lobes and posterior hippocampus activities. Perceptual details: encoded into memory, such as what a person was looking at or hearing at the time. Contextual information: the context which the memory was acquired. Semantic detail/affective information: how much people is mentally and emotionally involved in events. Source information is less likely to be bound to an emotional memory. Cognitive operations: retrieving information from long-term memory, manipulating it, trying to generate a mental image . Involving actions people either thought about or actually did. (people may wonder if they have locked the door before, they left or not) Perceptual detail is important for these decisions, since action actually taken will have more perceptual details in memory.
