Mem and Lan (9) Flashcards
What is memory transience?
memories become less accessible with time
What is memory bias?
influences which can distort our memories
What is memory misattribution?
misattribute a memory to a wrong source
What is memory blocking?
memories temporarily inaccessible
What is memory persistence?
when we cannot forget, even if we want to
What is memory absent mindedness?
shallow processing, bad memory for things we did not pay attention to
What is memory suggestibility?
implanted memories
What happens in memory transience?
Memory for facts & events typically become less accessible over time
What are the benefits of memory transience?
Adaptation to structure of environment
Able to keep info most likely to be needed
Able to keep track of most recent, frequently retrieved events
What happens in memory absent-mindedness?
Forgetting because of inattention during encoding or retrieval.
What happens in divided attention?
- During encoding: uniform large interference effects.
2. During retrieval: interference if distracter task taps into same representational system
What happens in Blocking?
Info temporarily inaccessible, interference of similar but incorrect items.
What happens in Misattribution?
Memory is present but attributed to wrong source
What is source amnesia?
forgetting the true source of a memory
What is the Sleeper Effect?
information from an unreliable source, later gains credibility because source is forgotten as being unreliable
What is the Transference effect?
Wrong source + subjective experience of remembering
What is the Cryptomnesia effect?
Wrong source + no experience of remembering
What is the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm?
False recall or recognition of something that never happened
What happens in memory suggestibility?
Accept false suggestion made by others
What can cause memory suggestibility?
Leading questions
What can cause memory bias?
Encoding & retrieval highly dependent on pre-existing knowledge and beliefs.
What is consistency bias?
Memories distorted by current beliefs, values, mood, expectations, schema’s
What is the benefits of memory bias?
helps us in understanding, we “fit” new info in schema, helps us to fill in gaps
What happens in memory persistence?
(constantly) remembering an event you want to forget.
An extreme example of memory persistence?
PTSD
What happens in PTSD?
activity in amygdala (fear-related responses especially persistent)
What are the benefits of memory persistence?
need to recall life-threatening events to stay alive
