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: ⑴ 5 years ago ⑵ 5 day ago ⑶ 5 days from now ⑷ 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.