Chapter 8: The Limitations of Memory Flashcards
What is chunking?
How many meaningful pieces of information can we divide this into? Think “ chunking example,” with FBI in a list of words
What is an example of a false memory?
Someone breaking in and assaulting a woman. The woman selecting the wrong man. Remembering wrong.
Who is the least susceptible and who is more susceptible to false memories?
Less susceptible
- video gamers
- children
More susceptible
- older adults
- if there is a reward involved
- or cooperation with other witnesses
What is an intrusion error for the Deese- Roediger McDermott procedure?
Reading a list of related words a nd recalling a central word even though it wasn’t on the list. ( bed, awake, tired.) Recalling sleep. It is a false positive error, Type 1.
What is source monitoring?
Ability to link a memory to its origin. The ability to remember the context and what extent. EX: tying your shoes.
What are source monitoring errors?
Source Misattribution. When someone incorrectly attributes the source of memory to a specific experience.
What is the misinformation effect?
Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event. We filter out or fill in missing pieces of info. EX: car crash. Misinformation slipped when asked to remember what happened.
What is the misinformation effect?
Memory for an event can be influenced by information given after the event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Memory for circumstances surrounding shockin, highly charged, important information. Like Robin WIlliams suicide.
Exam question! What type of memory is a flashbulb memory
An episodic memory.
- Where you were, what you were doing
- emotional and vivid
- Confidence stays the same overtime, rather than declines like everyday memories.
How can you create a false memory?
it is easy to implant detailed false memories into people. EX: the kmart ice cream child, or the hot air baloon family event. A mix of a true memory and a false memory is presented.
Stress and amygdala activation enhance memory encoding which supports the understanding that repressed memories exist or do not exist?
Do not exist.
“Repressed” memories can be explained by what three things?
False memories, suggestion, misinformation effect, or other types of intrusion errors.
What is rote rehearsal?
Recitation
What is self-referencing?
When people are asked to remember information when it is related in some way to themselves.
