Chapter 8 Flashcards
Reconstructive memory
The process of putting information together based on general types of stored knowledge in the absence of a specific memory representation.
Memory
: the power or process of remembering what has been learned
: something that is remembered
: the things learned and kept in the mind
Source misattribution
False memories
Flashbulb memories
A flashbulb memory (FM) is a vivid, enduring memory for how one learned about a surprising, shocking event. It thus involves memory for the source of event information, as opposed to memory for the event itself.
Vivid recollection of a shocking event.
Confabulation
False memory, when you think something happened to you but it didn’t.
Imagination inflation
The more you start to think about a false memory, the more you believe it.
Leading questions
Suggestive comments and misleading information making you believe something else.
Explicit memory
An actual, vivid memory
Recall
Ability to retrieve and reproduce a memory.
Recognition
Ability to identify previously encountered material (memories)
Implicit memory
Unconscious retention of memories that effect our current thoughts and actions, even though we don’t intentionally remember it.
Priming
A method for measuring implicit memory
Relearning method
A method for measuring retention that uses time required to learn the stuff, compared to the time it took to initially learn the stuff
Information processing models
Saying how we use our brain like a computer does to save memories. We encode, store, and retrieve information.
Cognitive schemas
Mental networks of knowledge.
