#465 Gabrielle Principe: Memory Development, False Memories, and Eyewitnesses
RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 8th 2021.
Dr. Gabrielle Principe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the College of Charleston. Her research has been federally funded by the National Institutes of Health and she has published her research in numerous scientific journals including Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and Cognition and Development. She has a lifelong fascination with the implications of evolutionary ideas on cognitive development and a serious interest in translating the latest scientific research about human development into information that parents and teachers can use to better rear and educate children. She is the author of Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan (Prometheus, 2011).
In this episode, we talk about how memory develops in children and how it works. We start with some basics about memory development. We Talk about how we rewrite our memories every time we recall them, and memory sharing and memory-sharing styles. We discuss the existence of repressed memories, and how false memories can be engendered. We introduce a bit of an evolutionary perspective, to try to understand why our memories fail in these domains. We also talk about autobiographical memory and its relation with the “self”. Finally, we discuss some of the problems with eyewitness testimonies.
Time Links:
Intro
Memory development
Do we rewrite our memories?
Memory sharing
Repressed memories
Why do we have such fallible memories?
Autobiographical memory and the “self”
Eyewitness testimonies
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