The Big, the Small, and the Complex: How Good Is Your Memory?
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- Abstract / Summary
- One of the fascinating things about people who have had a misattribution memory is the confidence in which they will defend their recollection. Building upon his anecdote about memory researcher Donald Thompson, who was wrongfully accused of a brutal rape due to a misattribution, Daniel Schacter proposes a memory test. Executed like a trained showman, Schacter challenges the audience’s own confidence in a demonstration of mental fallibility. You can follow along at home, and we’d be curious to know how you do.
- Field of Interest
- Psychology
- Content Type
- Lecture/presentation
- Format
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- URL
- http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/how_good_is_your_memory
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Subject
- Psychology, Social Sciences, Psychology & Counseling, Cognitive Psychology, Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction, Repeated Measures, Observation Methods, Repeated Measures, Observation Methods, Psicología Cognitiva, Psicologia Cognitiva, Elizabeth F. Loftus, 1944-, Intelligence, Cognition, and Memory
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Psicología Cognitiva, Psicologia Cognitiva