APSY-UE 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Echoic Memory, Semantic Memory
11 Oct 2016
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Hyperthymestic syndrome: memory of life events that"s too good. Guided imagery: therapists ask clients to imagine past events. Hypnotic age regression: therapists use hypnosis to return clients to the psychological state of childhood. Dissociative identity disorder (did): characterized by the existence of alter personalities, or alters. 7. 1-7. 3: how memory operates: the memory assembly line: Paradox of memory: our memories are surprisingly good in some situations and surprisingly poor in others. Infantile autism: lack specialized memory abilities, impressive exception. Memory illusion: a false but subjectively compelling memory. By-products of our brain"s generally adaptive tendency to go beyond the information available to it. Representativeness heuristic: like goes with like, simplify things to make them easier to remember. Actively reconstruct: when we try to recall an event, use cues and information available to us. Three systems of memory: sensory, short-term, & long-term. Span: how much info each system can hold. Duration: over how long a period of time that system can hold info.
