Cognition

Remembering childhood memories becomes easier when visiting one's hometown after many years.

Learning Spanish makes it harder for someone to remember previously learned French vocabulary.

Practicing piano disrupts one's ability to play a guitar piece learned earlier that day.

Recalling an old password becomes difficult after using the same device with no password for months.

There are no cross-cultural differences in susceptibility to false memories as they're purely dependent on brain chemistry alone.

False memories arise randomly and cannot be predicted or influenced by cultural elements or practices.

Variations in emphasis on collective experience versus individual detail within storytelling traditions may alter susceptibility to false memories across cultures.

The prevalence of technology use is the primary determinant of false memory creation across different cultures globally.

Retrograde amnesia

Dissociative amnesia

Infantile/childhood amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

Sensory memory

Short-term memory

Long-term memory

Working memory

Misinformation Effect: When Post-Event Information Alters or Modifies an Original Memory, Causing Distortions

Source Monitoring Error: Confusion Between Imagined/Real Events Leads to Misattribution of Memory Sources

Schemata Influence: Recall By Filling Gaps with Consistent Existing Knowledge, Even If Inaccurate

Retrieval-Induced Forgetting: Accessing Certain Memories Causes Suppression of Others and Potential Creation of Errors

To permanently store key life events.

To briefly store incoming sensory information.

To store short-term memories for later recall.

To assist in problem-solving tasks.

Employing experimental manipulation

Conducting a naturalistic observation

Performing a case study

Using a correlational design

Context-dependent memory

Flashbulb memory

Proactive interference

Serial position effect

It oversimplifies complex processes involved in encoding and retrieval.

It denies the existence of sensory memories.

It argues against chunking as a strategy for improving short-term memory.

It doesn't account for working memory.

Presenting stimuli randomly to avoid order effects influencing retrieval success rates.

Ensuring consistent environmental conditions during both encoding and retrieval phases for valid comparisons.

Providing monetary incentives to motivate all subjects equally throughout the experiment.

Using a wide age range of participants to generalize findings across populations.