Everyday Memory
What actually happens plus a person's knowledge, experiences, and expectations reflects
What is the Constructive Nature of Memory?
The tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure
What is the Illusory Truth Effect?
Mental representation used for a variety of cognitive functions
What is a concept?
When trying to determine category membership based on whether objects meet the description of the category
What is the Definitional Approach to Categorization?
Walking into class today and seeing Dr. Heller instead of me violates
What is a schema?
Stanny and Johnson's weapon's study revealed that we focus on weapons during a crime leading to errors due to
What is attention and arousal?
An average representation of the “typical” member of a category
What is a prototype?
In this approach a concept is represented by multiple representations
What is the Exemplar Approach?
The sequence of actions that usually occurs during a particular experience
What is a script?
Unconscious plagiarism of another’s work due to a lack of recognition of its original source
What is Cryptomnesia?
When a category member closely resembles the category prototype it is thought to have
What is high prototypicality?
What is a loss of a lot of information about common features?
Cabeza and colleagues' (2004) study comparing brain activity caused by autobiographical memory revealed that own photos activated these brain regions (only have to name 1)
What are the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus?
Misleading information presented after someone witnesses an event that can change how that person later describes the event
What is misleading post-event information?
Concepts that receive activation are primed and more easily accessed from memory
What is Spreading activation?
In the Connectionist Approach, this is the error signal transmitted back through the circuit
What is back propagation?
Memory often includes information that is implied by or is consistent with the to be remembered information, not explicitly stated but based on knowledge gained through experience
What are pragmatic inferences?
People are more likely to mistakenly identify someone because they have seen them before is a source monitoring error due to what
What is familiarity?
The hypothesis that we organize living things by sensory properties and artifacts by their functional properties
What is the sensory-functional hypothesis?
Knowledge of concepts is based on reactivation of sensory and motor processes that occur when we interact with the object
What is The Embodied Approach?