Collaborative Memory

Practice flashcards covering the history, methods, and key findings of collaborative memory from Lecture 14.

How did Bartlett (1932) differ from Ebbinghaus (1885) in how they approached the study of memory?

While Ebbinghaus studied memory as an individual process, Bartlett argued that memory was a social process and studied how memories were socially transmitted.

In a typical collaborative memory paradigm, how is recall measured for nominal groups versus collaborative groups?

For collaborative groups, recall is measured as the total number of words recalled together by the group; for nominal groups, it is measured as the pooled number of unique words recalled by individual members.

What is collaborative inhibition?

The finding that collaborative groups remember less than a similar-sized group of individuals working alone (nominal groups).

How does the retrieval disruption hypothesis explain collaborative inhibition?

It proposes that people's idiosyncratic memory and retrieval strategies get disrupted by information provided by other group members.

What is social contagion in collaborative memory?

A cost of collaboration where seeing or hearing someone else's wrong answers negatively influences your own memory.