1) What is autobiographical memory? What does it mean to say that it includes both episodic and semantic components?
Autobiographical memories are memories from life experiences that are collected throughout time. It is consisted of both episodic which are specific events that had occurred within people’s lives and semantic memories are the actual facts related to the specific events.
6) Why did Brown and Kulik call memory for public, emotional events, like the assassination of President Kennedy, “flashbulb” memories? Was their use of the term flashbulb correct?
Brown and Kulik called memory for public an emotional events because the memory is derived from a horrific circumstance that is felt emotionally and is forever remembered in one’s …show more content…
Describe what source monitoring and source monitoring errors are and why they are considered “constructive.” How does Bartlett’s “War of the Ghosts” experiment provide an example of source monitoring …show more content…
While source monitoring errors is when someone misidentified the source of their original memory. Source monitoring and source monitoring errors are considered constructive because of the retrieval and determining process. For ex. The person remember the first plane hitting the twin towers, but the person is trying to determine exactly who or where they got their information from. Bartlett’s “War of the Ghosts” experiment provided a source of monitoring errors because after the people learned of the story which is from a Canadian folklore, the people started to associate the story from their own culture background, instead of where the story originally came from.
4) What is the evidence from clinical case studies that “super memory” may have some disadvantages? What are some advantages of constructive memory?
The advantages of constructive memory is that it helps us to think in an abstractive way and selectively keeps important information we might need while discarding unnecessary information. The evidence from the clinical case studies that super memory may have disadvantages are; besides working on the opposite side of constructive memories, it tends to over store information to the point that the mind becomes overload, and unable to function effectively.
5) Why can we say that memory is highly functional but that it may not be perfectly suited to all
Autobiographical memories are memories from life experiences that are collected throughout time. It is consisted of both episodic which are specific events that had occurred within people’s lives and semantic memories are the actual facts related to the specific events.
6) Why did Brown and Kulik call memory for public, emotional events, like the assassination of President Kennedy, “flashbulb” memories? Was their use of the term flashbulb correct?
Brown and Kulik called memory for public an emotional events because the memory is derived from a horrific circumstance that is felt emotionally and is forever remembered in one’s …show more content…
Describe what source monitoring and source monitoring errors are and why they are considered “constructive.” How does Bartlett’s “War of the Ghosts” experiment provide an example of source monitoring …show more content…
While source monitoring errors is when someone misidentified the source of their original memory. Source monitoring and source monitoring errors are considered constructive because of the retrieval and determining process. For ex. The person remember the first plane hitting the twin towers, but the person is trying to determine exactly who or where they got their information from. Bartlett’s “War of the Ghosts” experiment provided a source of monitoring errors because after the people learned of the story which is from a Canadian folklore, the people started to associate the story from their own culture background, instead of where the story originally came from.
4) What is the evidence from clinical case studies that “super memory” may have some disadvantages? What are some advantages of constructive memory?
The advantages of constructive memory is that it helps us to think in an abstractive way and selectively keeps important information we might need while discarding unnecessary information. The evidence from the clinical case studies that super memory may have disadvantages are; besides working on the opposite side of constructive memories, it tends to over store information to the point that the mind becomes overload, and unable to function effectively.
5) Why can we say that memory is highly functional but that it may not be perfectly suited to all