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– Autobiographical memory for ordinary events • Marjorie Linton (1975, 1982) spent six years recording the daily events in her life (2 per day) in a systematic fashion • each day short descriptions of important events – the date, how distinctive, how emotional, importance to life goals • tested herself at delays up to three years – order two events (which happened first) – provide exact dates of events • performance was good at all delays – real life memories are more durable than what Ebbinghaus found – she often used problem solving to arrive at the dates of events » constructivist view of memory • events that she could not recall where often similar to other events she could not recall – repeated similar events can start to form a schema
Flashbulb Memories (Brown & Kulik, 1977) • personal events at time of disaster – JFK assassination, Challenger explosion, start of gulf war, 9/11 • physiological response – emotional response causes hormone release • better encoding • However, positive events better remembered than negative (see pp. 137-140) – Students in NYC recalled more facts than students in California • stronger emotional responses = more details
Page 1 and 2: Memory Terminology • Types of Lon
Page 3: A Unitary Account of Memory • lev
Page 6 and 7: Results • Forgetting Curves - Ebb
Page 8 and 9: - encoding specificity cont. • Ma
Page 10 and 11: Results cont. • memory is worse w
Page 12 and 13: Amnesia
Page 14: • Anterograde amnesia - Inability
Page 18 and 19: • Retrograde amnesia - loss of ol
Page 22 and 23: • Weaver (1993) compared intentio
Page 24 and 25: ORB and Cue Utilization • Differe
Page 26 and 27: Eyewitness Memory • memory integr
Page 28 and 29: False Memory Effect • Deese (1959
Page 30: • Hyman, Husband, and Billings (1

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