Lecture 13- Sins Of Memory

Question 1

What is the Deese-Roediger-McDermott memory illusion

Answer 1

Strong tendency to falsely recognise or recall a critical lure as having been presented

Question 2

What increases and decreases the Deese-Roediger-McDermont

Answer 2

• Hippocampal damage reduces

- Prefrontal cortex damage and old age increases

Question 3

What is gist memory

Answer 3

Idea that memory encompasses semantically related unstudied content

Question 4

What is gist

Answer 4

Semantic associations between wirds

Question 5

Gist memory effects also

Answer 5

Categorised pictures

Question 6

False memories can be based on

Answer 6

Semantic gist shared with real events

Question 7

When retrieving false recognition vs true recognition how do they differ in brain activation for left PFC and right hippocampus

Answer 7

They dont

Question 8

What is activated more during true recollection than false

Answer 8

• Right hippocampus

- Early visual cortex

Question 9

What contains more sensory info, true or false recollection

Answer 9

True recollection

Question 10

There is what kind of evidence for semantic differences between true and false recollection

Answer 10

Mixed

Question 11

Often true memories engage

Answer 11

• Hippocampus more

- Sensory cortex

Question 12

Under Bartlett’s memory schema the past operates as an

Answer 12

Organised mass

Question 13

People recalled unfamiliar stories how

Answer 13

Elements changed as well as omitted

Question 14

What information does not fit our schemas

Answer 14

Memory distortion

Question 15

Prior knowledge can support

Answer 15

Episodic memory when people process for meaning and when to be remembered info fits memory schema

Question 16

What were Bartlett’s methods

Answer 16

• Not well controlled.

- No statistics

Question 17

More distortion at

Answer 17

Longer study-test delays

Question 18

Memory distortion may be less common in

Answer 18

‘Naturalistic conditions’

Question 19

Wynn and Logie tested students memory for first week at uni-what’d they find

Answer 19

• Accurate and stable over 1 year
• Initial memory test was not for 2-3 weeks
• Consistent with proposed role of schemas

Question 20

At a 15 minute memory test major distortion were found in

Answer 20

About a third of all recalled info

Question 21

Schema expectancy helps or hinders recall of objects

Answer 21

Helps

Question 22

What was found more of when recognising high-schema objects

Answer 22

False recognition

Question 23

Suggests memory is not a record but

Answer 23

More of a construct

Question 24

Allport and postman 1947, telephone game, memory bias and stereotypes

Answer 24

• Picture of white man holding a blade with a black man

- Through retelling, knife moved to black man’s hand

Question 25

Stereotype errors increased with

Answer 25

Delay and even neutral suggestion

Question 26

Bias can be

Answer 26

• Induced and affect memory

- Modified (in anxiety/depression)

Question 27

Recall of details from scenarios was biased to

Answer 27

Trained direction