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Unit 2: Memory (Cognition)

Unit 2: Memory (Cognition). Essential Task 2-4 : Describe special topics in memory with specific attention to eidetic memories, and eye-witness testimony. Information Processing Model. gone. 1. Encoding. Long Term Memory. 2. Storage. 3. Retrieval. All the rest. Retrieval.

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Unit 2: Memory (Cognition)

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  1. WHS AP Psychology Unit 2: Memory (Cognition) Essential Task 2-4: Describe special topics in memory with specific attention to eidetic memories, and eye-witness testimony.

  2. Information Processing Model gone 1. Encoding Long Term Memory 2. Storage 3. Retrieval All the rest Retrieval Sensory Registers ExternalStimuli Attention Short Term Memory

  3. Essential Task 2-4: Outline • Special Topics in Memory • Childhood Amnesia • Autobiographical Memory • Eidetic Memory • Flashbulb Memories • Eye Witness Testimonies • Recovered Memories

  4. Childhood Amnesia • Generally poor memory for events prior to age 2-3 • May occur because brain is not fully developed at birth • Hippocampus not fully formed until age 2 • May be due to a lack of a clear sense-of-self in young children • May be the absence of language

  5. Autobiographical memory • Recollection of events in our life • More recent events are easier to recall • Hyperthymesia is the condition of possessing an extremely detailed autobiographical memory. Hyperthymesiacs remember an abnormally vast number of their life experiences.

  6. Eidetic Memory • Pop culture calls this a photographic memory • Usually due to well developed memory techniques

  7. Flashbulb Memories • Flashbulb memories • Vivid memories of dramatic event • May occur because of strong emotional content

  8. Eyewitness testimony • Shown to be unreliable • People’s recall for events may be influenced by what they heard or constructed after the incident • Memory is reconstructed • Memories are not stored like snapshots, but are instead like sketches that are altered and added to every time they are called up

  9. Eyewitness testimony cont’d • Elizabeth Loftus has shown subjects who are given false information about an event or scene tend to incorporate it into their memories, and "recall" the false information as a part of their original memory even two weeks later. • Loftus gives the example of the sniper attacks in the fall of 2002. "Everybody was looking for a white van even though the bad guys ended up having a dark Chevy Caprice." That's because some people reported seeing a white van at the scene of the crime. "Witnesses overhear each other," says Loftus, and police may also unintentionally influence people's memories when they talk about a crime.

  10. Eyewitness testimony • Study after study has shown that there is no correlation between the subjective feeling of certainty one has about a memory, and the memory’s accuracy

  11. Recovered memories • Involved the recall of long-forgotten dramatic event • May be the result of suggestion • Some evidence that memories can be repressed and recalled later

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