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Psy 101 Ch 10
Ch 10
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/05/2008

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Term

Memory

Definition

The capacity to retain and retrieve information, and also to the structures that account for this capacity.

Term
Who said memory was a reconstructive process?
Definition
Sir Frederic Bartlett 1932
Term
Source Misattribution
Definition
The inability to distinguish an actual memory from information learned from elsewhere.
Term
Flashbulb Memory
Definition
Unusual, shocking, or tragic events that hold a place in memory, that seem frozen in time.
Term
Confabulation
Definition
Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened.
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