Memory Flashcards

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Reconstructive

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Reconstructive memory is altering our recollection of things so that they make more sense.
If a story is said you will change it so it makes more sense to you.

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Levels or processing

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Structural Processing-least likely to remember
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Phonetic Processing-likely to remember middle
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Semantic Processing-most likely to remember

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Loftus and Palmer

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Asked participants to watch a video of cars smashing into each other, and asked questions about them. One question said SMASHED the other said HIT. The questions that said SMASHED were rated higher on how fast the cars were going.

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Bruce and young

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Aim: To see is familiarity affects accuracy of identifying faces.

Method: Psychology lectures were caught on security cameras at the entrance of a building. Participants were asked to identify the faces seen or the security tape from a series of high-quality photos.

Results: The lectures’ students made more correct identification than experienced police officers

Conclusion: Previous familiarity helps when identifying faces

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Multi-store model of memory.

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Sensory store——short term—long term/

Recall Forget from short term

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Describe context

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Context is when you learn a piece of information in one place and you can only recall it in that environment

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Describe interference

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Things that we have learnt that make it difficult to recall other information that we have learnt

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