MIDTERM II CHAPTER 8 Flashcards
Memory for specific experience from our life which can both include episodic and semantic memory
Autobiographical memory
Enhanced memory for adolescence and young adulthood
Reminiscent bump
Memory is enhanced for events that occur as a person’s self-image or life identity is being formed
Self-image hypothesis
Proposes that periods of rapid change that are followed by stability cause strong encoding memories
Cognitive hypothesis
Events in a person’s life story becomes easier to recall when they fit the cultural life script for that person’s culture
Cultural life script hypothesis
A person’s memory for the circumstances surrounding shocking, highly charged events
Flashbulb memory
A technique of comparing later memories to memories collected immediately after the event
Repeated recall
The tendency to focus on the weapon used in a crime which is a high emotion situation
Weapon focus
States that we remember events better not because of a special mechanism but because we rehearse these events afte they occur
Narrative rehearse hypothesis
What people report as memories are constructed based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as the person’s knowledge, experiences and expectations
Constructive nature of memory
Technique in which the same subjects tried to remember the story at longer and longer intervals after they first read it
Repeated reproduction
Process of determining the origins of our memories, knowledge or beliefs
Source monitoring
Misidentifying the source of a memory
Source monitoring error/source misattributions
Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others
Cryptoamnesia
Inferences made when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or implied by the sentence which are based from the person’s knowledge or experience
Pragmatic inference
A person’s knowledge about some aspect of the environment developed through experiences in different situations
Schema
Conception of the sequence of actions that usually occurs during a particular experience
Script
Misleading postevent information (MPI) presented after a person witnesses an event can change how the person describes that event later
Misinformation effect
Occurred when more recent learning interferes with memory that happened in the past
Retroactive interference
Increase in confidence level due to confirming feedback after making an identification
Post-identification feedback effect
Interview procedure which is based on what is known about memory retrieval. This reduces the likelihood of any suggestive input by the person conducting the interview.
Cognitive interview.
