Cognitive processes: memory
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Is memory a recording or a reconstruction?
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A reconstruction — recall rebuilds events using schemas.
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What is the multi-store model?
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Memory as sensory, short-term and long-term stores linked by attention and rehearsal.
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How do schemas cause memory errors?
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They add expected details and drop inconsistent ones, distorting recall.
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Why is confidence not accuracy?
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A reconstructed memory feels as vivid as a true one.
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Why does memory matter for eyewitness testimony?
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Reconstructive memory can produce confident but false recall of a crime.
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One strength of memory research?
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Models make memory testable and there's strong evidence for schema-driven errors.
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One limitation of memory research?
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Models oversimplify, schemas are hard to measure, and lab tasks can be artificial.
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How does memory link to measurement?
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Cognitive models make an invisible process testable.
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How does memory link to bias?
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Schemas distort recall, adding expected and dropping inconsistent details.
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Is memory reliable?
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Useful and often accurate, but reconstructive and predictably distorted under some conditions.
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