Long-term Memory

• each day short descriptions of 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
» testing is similar to recognition and cued-recall
– 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