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forgetting, memory improvement

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retrograde amnesia?   Inability to retrieve info from the past  
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anteriograde amnesia?   inability to form new memories  
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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  
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decay   memory fades as time passes  
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interference   an interaction btwn new material and prior learning that have a negative influence in comprehending the material  
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retroactive   newly learned info disrupts recall of old info  
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proactive   prior learning disrupts recall of new info  
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repression   (psychoanalytic freudian) the basic self-defense mechanism that represses anxiety and painful memories  
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misinformation effect   incorporating misleading info into your memory of an event  
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source amnesia   attributing an event we experienced/heard to the wrong source  
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reconstruction    
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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  
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infantile amnesia (childhood)    
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eidetic memory    
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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  
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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  
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deja vu   you feel familiar with the situation--but don't know why  
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