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What is the difference between a memory schema and a memory trace? |
Think of the mystic writing pad, a toy writing tablet that retains fragments of old messages even after they have been erased (like indents on a notepad). In time, these fragments accumulate and begin to overlap, so that they become increasingly hard to read. The first layer is like our perception of an event. Such perceptions are transitory, we pass from one experience to the next. Memory traces are like the indents of what we leave on the notepad, after effects of perception. The problem is that over time they tend to run together like all scribbles at the end of a notepad |
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For a long time it was assumed that memory traces were permanent and complete copies of past events, like a video recording that can be preserved indefinitely and replayed over and over. But what does Neisser's reappearance hypothesis say about this? |
Neisser's term for the now rejected idea that the same memory can reappear unchanged, again and again. Memory is schematic, relying on fragments to support a new construction. |
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Even as the idea of the schema was gaining ground, some psychologists argued that one particular type of memory was in fact permanent, the flashbulb memory |
They appear to be vivid, detailed memories of significant events and the more consequential they feel the event, the more often they rehearse it |
