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psych U7M33
forgetting, memory improvement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| retrograde amnesia? | Inability to retrieve info from the past |
| anteriograde amnesia? | inability to form new memories |
| what is encoding failure? | info doesn't enter the brain's long term memory due to our brain not processing all the details of an event/image |
| decay | memory fades as time passes |
| interference | an interaction btwn new material and prior learning that have a negative influence in comprehending the material |
| retroactive | newly learned info disrupts recall of old info |
| proactive | prior learning disrupts recall of new info |
| repression | (psychoanalytic freudian) the basic self-defense mechanism that represses anxiety and painful memories |
| misinformation effect | incorporating misleading info into your memory of an event |
| source amnesia | attributing an event we experienced/heard to the wrong source |
| reconstruction | |
| how does source amnesia help explain deja vu? | bec we have no explanation, we falsely link how you know the situation and the situation itself to make sense of it |
| infantile amnesia (childhood) | |
| eidetic memory | |
| one problem related to the validity of the recovery of all memories | when we don't remember a part of a memory, we fill it up with assumptions. after we retell it more, we feel as if we actually went through what we assume |
| another problem related to the validity of the recovery of all memories | a person's current mood can affect how they have always felt about the memory |
| deja vu | you feel familiar with the situation--but don't know why |