Memory Errors
Things that can cause memory errors.
What are prior expectation or beliefs; emotional or much discussed events?
People tend to trust memories that are expressed with this.
What is confidence?
Features that are common within the family
What is family resemblance?
Another name for vocal cords.
What are vocal folds?
The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish words in a language.
Phoneme
Causes gaps in recollection.
What is not noticing/paying attention to certain things and/or gradually forgetting some aspects of the experience?
Generally you can trust your memory because more often your recollection is?
Detailed, long-lasting, and correct
Argued that the simple terms we use everyday do not actually have definitions.
Who is Ludwig Wittgenstein?
A buzzing sort of vibration
What is voicing?
Rules that govern the structure of a phrase or sentence
What is syntax?
Accounts for 3/4 of false convictions.
What are eyewitness errors?
Forgetting someone's name that you just met
What is failure in acquisition.
Some members of a category are more central or "ideal"
What is prototype theory?
The process by which the brain determines where one meaningful unit ends and the next begins in continuous speech
What is speech segmentation?
Words like "dog", "school", and "book" are examples of this
What are free morphemes?
When a participant experiences an event and is then led to a misleading suggestion about how the event unfolded.
What is planting false memories?
The steps you can take to prevent forgetting.
What is testing yourself and revisiting a memory periodically?
Depends of resemblance to the prototype and the resemblance is a matter of degree
What is membership?
The way the brain organizes sequences of vowels and consonants
What is coarticulation?
People with this disorder can understand language they hear but cannot write or speak
What is nonfluent/Broca's Aphasia?
These errors are very easy to produce
What is misinformation effect?
Proposes that memories fade or erode with the passage of time.
Connectionist networks rely on this.
Distributed representations
Sounds can be categorized according to where the air- flow is restricted refers to this
What is place of articulation?
Technological advances, changes in social habits or politics, and changes in diet
What are things that can contribute to changes in language