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14 Cards in this Set
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Seven Sins of Memory |
Daniel Shacter |
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3 sins of forgetting |
Mindness -Absent Mindness-Transience-Blocking -Transience Mindness-Transience-Blocking -Blocking |
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3 sins of distortion |
misattribution -mimisattribution-suggestibility -suggestibility -Bias |
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Sin of intrusion |
Persistence |
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Encoding Failure |
Age affects encoding efficiency Change blindness NEVER encodes what we dont notice |
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Storage Decay |
-We still tend to forget things |
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Ebbinghaus' Forgeting Curve |
The course of forgetting initially rapid, then levels off with time. |
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Harry Bahrick (1984) |
Forgetting curve for spanish vocab learned in school. -3 years after school forgot much as learned -After 3 years forgetting leveled off & could remember info for next 25 years |
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Proactive (forward-acting) interferences |
old learning interferes with the new learning |
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Retroactive (backward-acting) interferes |
new learning interferes with old learning |
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Misinformation effect |
After exposed to subtle information many people misremember |
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Elizabeth Loftus |
200 experiment with 20,000 people eyewitness account |
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Memory reconstruction |
As we rexount an experuence we fill in memory gaps with plausible guesses and asumptions |
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Children are credible when |
Adults have not talked to them prior ton interview and with a neutral person and also non leading questions |
