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Psychology 09:20

The document discusses the serial position effect and how people tend to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than the middle items. It also covers various types of forgetting like retrieval failure, interference theory, motivated forgetting, and how memories can become distorted over time with details being added, subtracted or changed without awareness.

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Psychology 09:20

The document discusses the serial position effect and how people tend to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than the middle items. It also covers various types of forgetting like retrieval failure, interference theory, motivated forgetting, and how memories can become distorted over time with details being added, subtracted or changed without awareness.

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Psychology 09/20

The Serial Position Effect


- Tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in
middle
- Two parts
o Primary effect: tendency to recall first items in a list
o Recency effect: tendency to recall final items in a list
- Encoding
o Where I encode, I can remember, retrieve better
o More likely to remember things if conditions under which they recall are similar
to conditions under which it was learned
o Context effects: tendency to remember information easily when the retrieval
occurs
- Flashbulb memories
o Involve recall of very specific details or images surrounding a significant, rare, or
vivid event
 Details may not be accurate, but higher degree of confidence in accuracy
o But, research demonstrates
 Both flashbulb and everyday memories gradually decay over time
 Emotionally charged, not more accurate than common memories
- Forgetting
o Retrieval fails, why?
o Wasn’t encoded, even though we thought we did (ex, multitasking and
absentmindedness)
o Prospective memory error
 Failure to remember what needs to be done (ex, que iba a hacer?)
o Interference theory
 Memories interfere with memories
 Not cause by mere passage of time
 Caused by one memory competing with or replacing another memory
o Two types of interference
 Retroactive interference
 New memory interferes with remembering old information
 Proactive interference
 Old memory interferes with remembering new information
o Motivated forgetting
 Undesired memory is held back from awareness
 Suppression
 Conscious forgetting
 Repression
 Unconscious forgetting (controversial)
- Déjà vu
o Thinking doing something for first time, yet intense feeling of remembering a
scene
o Incidence increases with age
o Srises when features in situation trigger sensation of features containing
memory
- Imperfect memories
o Memory can be easily disorted so they contain inaccuracies
o Memory no gurantee that memory is accurate
o Memory details change overtime
 Without awareness, details can be added, subtracted, exaggerated,
downplayed
o Misinformation effect
 Post event can distort eyewitness recollection of original event
o Source confusion
 So true source of a memory can be forgotten
 Memory can be attributed to wrong source
- Cognitive dissonance?
o Beliefs influence memory
- Retrograde amnesia
o Severe memory loss
- Anterograde amnesia
o Loss of memory caused by inability to store new memory

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