PSYCH 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Noam Chomsky, Habituation, Metacognition
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Hyperthymestic syndrome: memory of life events that"s too good. Memories define out past and our identities. Most individuals with autism lack specialized memory abilities, but there are exceptions. Memory illusion: a false but subjectively compelling memory: most memory illusion are by product of the brain adaptive ability to go beyond the information available to us. Representativeness heuristic: we simply things to make them easier to remember. Actively reconstruct: our memories using cues and information available to us, memories are often reconstructed. Passively reproduce refers to replication our memories exactly. Major systems of memory: sensory memory, short-term memory, long term memory: two important dimensions: Span: how much information each system can hold. Duration: how long a period of time that system can hold information. Sensory memory is tied to closely to the raw materials of our experience, our perceptions of the world.
