PSYC 4033 Chapter : PSYC4033
Document Summary
Memory is malleable for unexpected and stressful events. Optimal arousal level is somewhere in the middle. Anxiety level (london and bank teller examples) Kensinger (2007) studied negative, neutral, positive items: had to choose if pictures changed in later trials, for negative items, people retrieve more specific details. Spontaneous remembering is rather rare, more often memories are cued. When we think about memory, we make metamemory judgments: how do you know that you know something, but know you don"t know other things, target=thing you can/can"t remember, cue=prompt, probe. Cue-familiarity hypothesis people assess their familiarity with the cue when making judgments: suggests that delayed judgments of learning are not dependent on retrieval of any info. Accessibility hypothesis assess what they retrieve, even partial information: delayed judgments are based on how much you can retrieve and how strong that retrieval is. + retrieval (overt: should not be different, jol were accurate after delays, very low jol were made very quickly.
