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The serial-position curve depicts two effects:

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  • recency effect

- primacy effect

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Decay theory asserts that information is forgotten because of ..

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.. gradual disappearance, rather than displacement.

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Decay or interference?

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At least in short-term memory both. But evidence for interference stronger.

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When we say that the nature of memory is constructive, we mean that …

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… prior knowledge influences new memory formation and how and what we recall.

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Flashbulb memory is a memory of an event …

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… so powerful that one remembers it as vividly as if it were preserved on film. -> think 9/11

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7 kinds of memory distortions:

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  • transcience (memory fades quickly)
  • absent-mindedness (bruhsing your teeth twice)
  • blocking (i know there was sth else, but can’t remember it)
  • Misattribution
  • Suggestibility
  • Bias
  • Persistence
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A way to test memory distortion?

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eyewitness testimony paradigms

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One possibility for why we are so bad at knowing whether we have heared something or not?

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we have difficulties with “source-monitoring”

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How items are encoded has a strong effect on how and how well they are retrieved. This is known as …

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… encoding specificity.