国外人类记忆课件MemoryPresentation.ppt

Memory: Temporal Effects, Subjectivity, Retrospectivity-Prospectivity, and so much more! Overview of talk Background and Introductions Temporal aspects of memory Activity Prospective memory Overview Activity Experiment 1 review Temporal Aspects of memory What is memory? What is forgetting Encoding? Retrieval? What happens in between memories? Interference? What is interference? Emotion? Information? Temporal Aspects of memory Activity (10 minutes) Write about an experience (1-2 paragraphs for each) that occurred or will occur: 5 years ago 5 day ago 5 days from now 5 years into the future Once you are done, lets hear from you all!!! Temporal Aspects of memory Episodic memory Memory of autobiographical events…A type of declarative memory Solomon Asch: “the very meaning of a message can change as a function of the source to which it is attributed.” The meaning of the statement is dependent on not only who says it, but also on how the recipient of the message interprets it. How subjective are our memories? Trope Liberman, 2011 Construal Theory Solomon Asch: “that the very meaning of a message can change as a function of the source to which it is attributed.” “A little rebellion….is a good thing” Construal Theory Solomon Asch: “that the very meaning of a message can change as a function of the source to which it is attributed.” “A little rebellion….is a good thing” Temporal Aspects of memory Construal: person perceives, comprehends, and interprets the world around him or her. Construal level theory (CLT) proposes that we do so by forming abstract mental construals of distal objects. we cannot experience what is not present, we can make predictions about the future, remember the past, imagine other people’s reactions, and speculate about what might have been. Predictions, memories, and speculations are all mental constructions, distinct from direct experience. What are mental constructions? Trope Liberman, 2011 Temporal Aspects of memory Psychological distance