Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Decay Theory, Psych, Ath

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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They help because the connections, serving as retrieval paths, enable you to locate information in memory. But connections can hurt because they sometimes make it difficult to see where the remembered episode stops and other, related knowledge begins. Intrusion error: a memory error in which one recalls elements that were not part of the original episode. Drm procedure: a commonly used experimental procedure, named after its originators (deese, roediger, & mcdermott), for eliciting and studying memory errors. In this procedure, a person sees or hears a list of words that are all related to a single theme; however, the word that names the theme is not itself included. Nonetheless, people are very likely to remember later that the theme word was presented. Schematic knowledge schema (pl. schemata): knowledge describing what is typical or frequent in a particular situatio(cid:374). Fo(cid:396) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple, a (cid:862)kit(cid:272)he(cid:374) s(cid:272)he(cid:373)a(cid:863) (cid:449)ould stipulate that a sto(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d (cid:396)ef(cid:396)ige(cid:396)ato(cid:396) It helps you when its time to recall something.