Question | Answer |
Absent Mindedness | putting keys down, forgetting 10 mins later. All ages. Older worse than young. Attention: old - less capacity to direct attention to task. Attention = encoding stage. less attention --> poor recall later. Cues - recall. |
Blocking | temp. in accessibility of required info. Describing something and asking someone to recall what it is. Info has been ENCODED and is STORED able to retrieve parts |
Misattribution | Memories linked with wrong 'source'. The DRM procedure (False Memory) - easy to say with confident something they haven't previously encountered. Veridical vs. Illusory recognition. Saying with confidence something they haven't. Deese Roediger-McDermott |
Bernstein, Laney, Morris and Loftus (2005) False memory good? | Given false memories of a negative experience with unhealthy food. "You felt sick after strawberry ice-cream" 20% believed memory. |
Suggestibility | Including external info into personal recollection. Susceptible in eye witness testimony. Loftus and Palmer (hit/smashed) |
Bias | Consistency Bias re-write past to fit present Anxious during event. Experience anxiousness = more likely to recall memory (Wright and Morley) |
Persistence | Inability to prevent the recollection of unwanted memories. PTSD. Counterfactual thinking 'what might have been' Inability to forget something. Amygdala |
Conclusion | Schachter - memory failures in 7 dimensions. Overall between dimensions. |
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