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Question 1

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 1

Inability to form new memories because of injuries/illnesses

Question 2

Retrograde

Answer 2

An inability to retrieve info from the past due to injury/illness

Question 3

Encoding failure

Answer 3

The inability to get information into your storage

Question 4

Storage decay

Answer 4

Memories that fade over time

Question 5

Retrieval failure

Answer 5

The inability to get memories out of storage

Question 6

Proactive interference

Answer 6

The old stuff you learned last month is getting in the way of learning new things

Question 7

Retroactive interference

Answer 7

New stuff you learned this week is making it harder to remember old stuff

Question 8

Repression

Answer 8

The basic defense mechanism that banishes things like feelings.

Question 9

Reconsolidation

Answer 9

a process in which old stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again

Question 10

Misinformation effect

Answer 10

misleading information has distorted one’s memory of an event

Question 11

Elizabeth Loftus

Answer 11

Famous memory researcher,researched reconstructive memory

Question 12

Source amnesia

Answer 12

Faulty memory for how info is learned

Question 13

Deja vu

Answer 13

The sense that “I’ve experienced this before”

Question 14

Cognition

Answer 14

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

Question 15

Concepts

Answer 15

Mental grouping of similar things

Question 16

Convergent thinking

Answer 16

narrowing
the available problem solutions to
determine the single best solution

Question 17

Divergent thinking

Answer 17

expanding
the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that
expands in different directions