| Chapter 8: Integration of Episodic Memory and Semantic Memory False memories may come from imagining, visualizing, (day)dreaming, priming. Misinformation effect: people claim to remember misinformation given. Memory impairment hypothesis: new memory actually changes the old memory (retroactive interference) Non-impairment hypothesis: memories are just competing at retrieval Source misattribution: inability to distinguish source of information Importance of attention Importance of metacognitive processes: we need to know how our memory works Misinformation effect found even when participants warned about it Misinformation acceptance: accept additional information as having been part of earlier experience Verbal overshadowing effect: people who describe faces are less accurate at recognizing their pictures Language skills are very limited unless properly trained. |
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