7 Sins of memory

Question 1

what are the 7 sins of memory

Answer 1

Forgetting
-Transience
-Absent-mindedness
-Blocking
Memory Distortion
-Misattribution
-Suggestibility
-Bias
Persistence

Question 2

Transience - Drop of Curve

Answer 2

Mundane information is lost relatively quickly especially if it’s not rehearsed. Rehearsing helps to remember better and forgetting is slower.
-Takes longer to forget emotional memories because emotionality has a biological mechanism associated with it

Question 3

Absent-mindedness

Answer 3

We do not notice everything that is around us and do not encode everything we encounter
Change-blindness: the inability to detect changes in scenes unless we’re looking at the location of change when it happens
-When it comes to a crime, sometimes there is a change that we don’t notice and often discrepancies between what we perceive and what actually happened
Unconscious transference: tendency to misidentify an innocent bystander as the perpetrator of a crime

Question 4

Blocking

Answer 4

Interpret events and detect particular bits of information depending on our schemas which may result in misattributions and suggestibility
Tip of tongue: know word but cannot generate
Retrieval blocking: causes us to remember rehearsed cues better than non-rehearsed

Question 5

Misattributions

Answer 5

The false recognition and recall of unseen items
Source-monitoring errors: believing information comes from one place and not another.
-Task orientation is not focused on accuracy
-Bias to attribute prior knowledge
-Directed by schemas
-Little attention devoted
-Expectations bias

Question 6

Suggestibility

Answer 6

The modification or implantation of memories

Question 7

Suggestibility- study

Answer 7

Researches instructed participants to watch video of a car at a stop-sign and asked questions following
-questions were incorporated with consistent and misleading information.
-depending on how asked, participants may increase the collision rate and speed of car initially by 10mph

Question 8

Bias

Answer 8

Tendency to respond partially may exaggerate recollections

Question 9

Fundamental misattribution

Answer 9

Things that happen to us are due to situations and things that happen outside of our control whereas things that happen to others are due to personal factors

Question 10

Implicit theory of change and stability

Answer 10

We believe we are consistent in our attitudes, beliefs, and feelings though we are often not

Question 11

Truth bias

Answer 11

Tendency to take people for their word
-Jason Matthew Walker: present credentials as phd in forensic child abuse, MA social work, diploma in behavioural science, phd in medical science, epidemiology in public health, conference presenter, regional coroner