Expertise
People with this condition experience severe memory deficits, while individuals with expertise demonstrate impressive memory abilities.
What is amnesia?
Compared to positive memories, these types of memories tend to fade more over time.
What are unpleasant memories?
Some individuals create false memories of abuse through this process of repeated suggestion.
What is suggestive questioning?
This psychologist is considered the leading expert on expertise and emphasizes the role of deliberate, intensive practice.
Who is K. Anders Ericsson?
This commonly known effect, which emphasizes deeper processing.
What are the levels-of-processing effect?
While some recover long-forgotten memories of childhood abuse, others may unknowingly create false memories due to this kind of external influence.
What is social pressure?
Experts rely more on this type of memory, allowing them to reduce the burden on working memory.
What is long-term memory?
This psychological state is more long-lasting and not necessarily tied to a specific event.
What is mood?
Misleading information, given after an event, can alter a person’s memory of that event.
What is the misinformation effect?
People tend to identify individuals from their own racial or ethnic group more accurately than those from different backgrounds. This phenomenon is known as this effect.
What is the cross-race effect?
The tendency for people to process and recall pleasant information more efficiently than unpleasant information is known as this principle.
What is the Pollyanna Principle?
Memory errors can be influenced by these cognitive structures, which help us organize information but may also distort recall.
What are schemas?
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies show that these brain structures are more activated in novice doctors compared to experts during clinical reasoning.
What are prefrontal cortex regions?
The study of how emotions influence memory was explored by these two psychologists in their work on mood and cognition.
Who are Bower & Forgas?
Despite advances in brain imaging, these techniques cannot reliably distinguish between true and false memories of childhood abuse.
What are cognitive neuroscience techniques?