retrieving & forgetting memories. memory construction leveling: simplifying material, shortening...
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Retrieving & Forgetting Memories
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Memory Construction
• Leveling: Simplifying material, shortening• Sharpening: Highlighting or overemphasizing
some details• Assimilation: Changing details to better fit the
subject’s own background, knowledge, or schemas.
• Semantically encoded: because many parts of the story are encoded this way (basic gist rather than exact words), they are likely to be altered in line with the teller’s schemas.
• Expectations, Experiences, Biases, Stereotypes
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No conscious recall
C.C.
habits
Deliberate
Explicit
Conscious Recall
Memory of events in serial form
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Retrieval Cues
Memories are held in storage by a web of associations. These associations are like
anchors that help retrieve memory.
Fire Truck
truck
red
fire
heatsmoke
smellwater
hose
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Priming
To retrieve a specific memory from the web of associations, you must first
activate one of the strands that leads to it. This process is called priming.
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Déja Vu
Déja Vu means “I've experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an
earlier similar experience.
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Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer: Memory
Experiment and Hypothesis
• Hypothesis: People will remember a car accident differently if given different language cues (words) about the accident
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Loftus and Palmer: Methodology
• Students watched a film of two cars colliding• Collision was moderate with no broken glass• Different students asked different questions: hit,
smashed, collided, bumped, contacted
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Loftus and Palmer: Results
• People reported the fastest speeds if the researchers had used the word “smashed” in the question
• From fastest to slowest reported speeds: smashed, collided, bumped, hit, and contacted groups
VERB MEAN ESTIMATE OF SPEED (MPH)
Smashed 40.8
Collided 39.3
Bumped 38.1
Hit 34.0
Contacted 31.8
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Loftus and Palmer: Results
• One week later, subjects were asked if they had seen broken glass
• 32% of subjects asked the “smashed” question said yes; 14% of subjects asked the “hit” question said yes
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Loftus and Palmer: Results and Implications
• People remember things differently depending on the language used to describe an event (e.g., “smashed” versus “hit”)
• Misinformation effect – memories can become skewed when presented with misinformation
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Cue Dependence• Available cues affect which
memories are retrievable– Body States
• State Dependence
– Emotional • Mood Congruence
– Social/contextual• Adult memory is emotionally
laden• Current cues determine what
is retrievable • Using our memories shapes
them over timeWhat do you think affected Nick’s memories of his last conversation with his daughter, Amber?
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Context Effects
Scuba divers recall more words underwater if they learned the list underwater, while
they recall more words on land if they learned that list on land (Godden &
Baddeley, 1975).
Fred McC
onnaughey/ Photo Researchers
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Forgetting
An inability to retrieve information due to poor encoding, storage, or
retrieval.
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Encoding Failure
We cannot remember what we do not encode.
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Which penny is real?
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Storage Decay
Poor durability of stored memories leads to their decay. Ebbinghaus
showed this with his forgetting curve.
Unfamiliar & Uninteresting = more forgetting
Forgot 80% after 1 week
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Retaining Spanish
Bahrick (1984) showed a similar pattern of forgetting and retaining over 50 years.
Andrew
Holbrooke/ C
orbis
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Retrieval Failure
Although the information is retained in the memory store, it cannot be accessed.
Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) is a retrieval failure phenomenon. Given a cue (What makes blood cells red?) the subject says the word begins
with an H (hemoglobin).
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Volunteers Anyone?
Who wants
To Stroop?
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Interference
Learning some new information may disruptretrieval of other information.
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Retroactive Interference
Sleep prevents retroactive interference. Therefore, itleads to better recall.
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Motivated Forgetting
Motivated Forgetting: People unknowingly revise their memories.
Repression: A defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
Sigmund Freud
Culver Pictures
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Why do we forget?
Forgetting can occur at any memory stage.
We filter, alter, or lose much information during these stages.
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Hippocampus
• Hippocampus – a neural center in the limbic system that processes explicit memories.
• Amnesia – loss of memory
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Cerebellum
Cerebellum – a neural center in the hindbrain that processes implicit memories. “muscle memory”
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Storing Implicit & Explicit Memories
Explicit Memory refers to facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.
Implicit memory involves learning an action while the individual does not know or declare what she
knows.
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Moods and MemoriesState Dependent
We usually recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood.
Emotions, or moods, serve as retrieval cues.Jorgen Schytte/ Still Pictures