Autobiographical Memory
"We color and shape our life's experiences based on what we know about the world" is a statement made by
Who is Bernstein, D.M. and Loftus, E.F. ?
It is made up of general knowledge or expectation that stems from your past experiences of someone or something
What is a schema?
Trying to identify the origins of recall a particular memory is known as
What is source monitoring?
The first researchers to study whether various important political events triggered contextually rich memories in 1977
Who is Roger Brown and James Kulik?
It is considered to be a vital part of your identity because it shapes your personal history and your self-concept
What is autobiographical memory?
Schemas are used to guide
What is recall?
Created a source monitoring error in 2003 when talking about the start of the Iraq War
Who is George Bush?
Your memory for the circumstances in which you first learned about a very surprising and emotionally arousing event.
What is flashbulb memory?
A dependent variable that makes you question if your recall matches the actual events that happened or does it distort events
What is memory accuracy?
An exaggerated consistency between past feelings and beliefs and our current viewpoint
What is consistency bias?
Trying to determine whether an event really happened or not or whether you actually imagined it is known as
What is reality monitoring?
Requires people to remember specific details about people and events.
What is eyewitness testimony?
Shapes your memory for a previous event, so that your memory becomes more consistent with your current viewpoint
What is Schemas?
Name the historian that completed an interview on Chicana garment workers in El Paso Texas in 1997
Who is Emily Honig?
What percentage of people when shown a photo three times believed that they were responsible for the completed action
What is 25%?
Mistakenly recalling the misleading information, rather than the event they actually saw is known as
What is post-event misinformation effect?
Considered to be high in ecological validity
What is studies of autobiographical memory?
Known for summarizing consistency bias as “The way we were depends on the way we are”
Who is Schacter?
A mistake you make by thinking that source A provided some information, when source b actually provided the information is known as
What is source monitoring error?
People having trouble recalling old material because some recently learned, new material keeps interfering with old memories is known as
What is retroactive interference?