Wade and Tavris © 2005 Prentice Hall 8-1 Invitation To Psychology Carol Wade and Carol Tavris PowerPoint Presentation by H. Lynn Bradman Metropolitan Community.

Wade and Tavris © 2005 Prentice Hall

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Invitation To Psychology

Carol Wade and Carol TavrisPowerPoint Presentation by

H. Lynn BradmanMetropolitan Community College-Omaha


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Memory


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Memory

• Reconstructing the Past• Memory and the Power of Suggestion• In Pursuit of Memory• The Three-Box Model of Memory• How We Remember• Why We Forget• Autobiographical Memories


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Reconstructing the Past


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Reconstructing the Past

• The Manufacture of Memory• The Fading Flashbulb• The Conditions of Confabulation


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The Manufacture of Memory

• Memory is selective.• Recovering a memory is not playing a

videotape– Memory involves inferences that fill in gaps

in recall.– We are often unaware we have made such

inferences.• Source Amnesia: The inability to distinguish

what you originally experienced from what you heard or were told later about an event.


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The Fading Flashbulb

• Even flashbulb memories, emotionally powerful memories that seem particularly vivid, are often embellished or distorted and tend to become less accurate over time.


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The Conditions of Confabulation

• Confabulation: Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened.

• Confabulation is most likely when:– you have thought about the event many times;– the image of the event contains many details;– the event is easy to imagine;– you focus on emotional reactions to the event rather

than what actually happened.


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Memory and the Power of Suggestion


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Memory and the Power of Suggestion

• The Eyewitness on Trial• Children’s Testimony• Memory Under Hypnosis


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The Eyewitness on Trial

• The reconstructive nature of memory makes memory vulnerable to suggestion.

• Eyewitness testimony is especially vulnerable to error when:– the suspects ethnicity differs from that of the

witness; – when leading questions are put to witnesses;

– when the witnesses are given misleading

information.


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Misleading Information Study

• Misleading information from other sources can alter what witnesses report.

• Students were shown a picture of a man with straight hair, but heard a description that mentioned curly hair.

• When the students were asked to reconstruct the face, a third added curly hair.


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Children’s Testimony

• If asked if a visitor committed acts that had not occurred, few 4-6 year olds said yes.– 30% of 3-year olds

said yes• When investigators used

techniques taken from real child-abuse investigations, most children said yes.

Social Pressure, False Allegations


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Memory Under Hypnosis

• Hypnosis: A procedure in which the practitioner suggests changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, or behavior of the subject, who cooperates by altering his or her normal cognitive functioning.

• Errors and pseudomemories are so common under hypnosis that the APA opposes use of hypnosis-based testimony in courts of law; few courts allow it.


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In Pursuit of Memory


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In Pursuit of Memory

• Measuring Memory• Models of Memory


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Measuring Memory

• Explicit Memory: Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information.

• Implicit Memory: Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts or actions.


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Explicit Memory

• Recall: The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material.

• Recognition: The ability to identify previously encountered material.


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Implicit Memory

• Priming: A method for measuring implicit memory in which a person reads or listens to information and is later tested to see whether the information affects performance on another type of task.

• Relearning: A method for measuring retention that compares the time required to relearn material with the time used in the initial learning of the material.


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The Three-Box Modelof Memory

Sensory Memory: Fleeting ImpressionsShort-term Memory: Memory’s Scratch Pad

Long-term Memory: Final Destination


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Three-Box Model of Memory


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Sensory Memory:Fleeting Impressions

• Sensory Memory: A memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate images of sensory information.

• Pattern Recognition: The identification of a stimulus on the basis of information already contained in long-term memory.


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Short-term Memory:Memory’s Scratch Pad

• Short-Term Memory (STM): In the three-box model of memory, a limited capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods; it is also used to hold information retrieved from long-term memory for temporary use.

• Chunk: A meaningful unit of information; it may be composed of smaller units.


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The Value of Chunking

• You have 5 seconds to memorize as much as you can

• Then, draw an empty chess board and reproduce the arrangement of pieces


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Long-term Memory:Final Destination

• Procedural memories:– Memories for

performance of actions or skills.

– “Knowing how”• Declarative memories:

– Memories of facts, rules, concepts, and events; includes semantic and episodic memory.

– “Knowing that”


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Long-term Memory:Final Destination

• Semantic memories:– General knowledge,

including facts, rules, concepts, and propositions.

• Episodic memories:– Personally experienced

events and the contexts in which they occurred.


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Conceptual Grid


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Serial-Position Effect

• The tendency for recall of first and last items on a list to surpass recall of items in the middle of the list.


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How We Remember


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How We Remember

• Effective Encoding• Rehearsal• Mnemonics


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Encoding

• In order to remember material well, we must encode it accurately in the first place.

• Some kinds of information, such as material in a college course, require effortful, as opposed to automatic, encoding.


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Rehearsal

• Rehearsal of information keeps it in short-term memory and increases the chances of long-term retention.


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Rehearsal

• Maintenance Rehearsal: Rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.

• Elaborative Rehearsal: Association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new information to make it memorable.


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Mnemonics

• Mnemonics can also enhance retention by promoting elaborative encoding and making material meaningful.

• However, for ordinary memory tasks, complex memory tricks are often ineffective or even counterproductive.


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Why We Forget


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Why We Forget

• Decay• Interference• Cue-dependent Forgetting• Psychogenic Amnesia


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Decay

• Decay Theory: The theory that information in memory eventually disappears if it is not accessed; it applies more to short-term than to long-term memory.


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Forgetting Curve

• Herman Ebbinghaus tested his own memory for nonsense syllables.

• Forgetting was rapid at first and then tapered off.


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Remembering Over Years

• Marigold Linton tested her own memory for personal events over a period of several years.

• Retention fell at a gradual but steady rate.


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Interference

• Retroactive Interference: Forgetting that occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar material stored previously.

• Proactive Interference: Forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently learned material.


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Cue-dependent Forgetting

• Cue-Dependent Forgetting: The inability to retrieve information stored in memory because of insufficient cues for recall.

• State-Dependent Memory: The tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or mental state as during the original learning or experience.


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Psychogenic Amnesia

• The partial or complete loss of memory (due to non-organic causes) for threatening information or traumatic experiences.


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Autobiographical Memories

Childhood Amnesia: The Missing YearsMemory and Narrative: The Stories of

Our Lives


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Childhood Amnesia: The Missing Years

• Childhood Amnesia: The inability to remember events and experiences that occurred during the first two or three years of life.

• Cognitive explanations:– Lack of sense of self– Impoverished encoding– A focus on the routine– Different ways of thinking about the world


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Memory and Narrative: The Stories of Our Lives

• A person's narrative 'life story' organizes the events of his or her life and gives them meaning.

• Narratives change as people build up a store of episodic memories, and life stories are, to some degree, works of interpretation and imagination.

• The central themes of our stories can guide recall and influence our judgments of people and events.

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