PSY 452 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Positive Feedback, Pollyanna Principle
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Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory for events that occurred prior to brain damage. Anterograde amnesia: loss of the ability to form new memories. Expertise: impressive memory abilities as well as consistently exceptional performance on representative tasks in a particular area: context specificity, not correlative with iq. Possess well-organized structure: reorganize new material, vivid visual image, emphasize distinctiveness of stimuli while encoding, rehearse in strategic fashion, reconstruction. Schema: general knowledge or expectation which is distilled from your past experiences. Consistency bias: tend to exaggerate the consistency between our past feelings and beliefs and our current viewpoint. Source monitoring: trying to identify the origin of a particular memory. We do not spontaneously monitor the source of our memories although our memory performance would be more accurate if we did. Reality monitoring: trying to identify whether an event really occurred or whether you actually imagined this event.
