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
