Week 9 -Everyday Memory Flashcards
Reminiscence Bump
Recalling events across lifespan, ppl tend to remember larger % of memories between 10-30 yrs
Why does reminiscence bump occur? (3)
- self-image hypothesis (firsts in life-job, car)
- cognitive hypothesis (encoding better for change than by stability)
- cultural life script hypothesis (we recall events expected of us, tacit knowledge)
Part of brain critically involved in processing of emotional and non-emotional info
Amygdala
What stress hormone is released after an emotional episode?
Cortisol, helps contribute to consolidation of memories.
Which is remembered more; emotional or non-emotional memories?
Emotional, related to valence and arousal.
Flashbulb memory
Special class of memory for “shocking, highly charged important events” (how person heard about an event-not the event itself)
What is difference between flashbulb and everyday memory?
Although quality is similar- Belief in memory is higher in flashbulb memories are higher-vividness (seeing/hearing).
What was the difference in encoding memory in Talarico and Davidson’s studies?
Talarico ppl generated their own cues for everyday memory retrieval.
Davidson ppl were provided cues by experimenter for everday memory retieval.
Narrative rehearsal hypothesis (Neisser, 1996)
We remember events because we rehearse these events after they occur
Source monitoring errors
Mistakes about origins of memories
Cryptomnesia
Unconscious plagiarism
Repeated reproduction (Bartlett, 1932)
Info becomes more schematic more it is rehearsed
Pragmatic inferences
Wording changes due to expectations from prior memory
Autobiographical memory
Specific experiences of our life, which can include both episodic and semantic components.
Two important characteristics of autobiographical memories:
- multidimensional
- remember some events better than others
