Mod 33

Question 1

What is anterograde amnesia?

Answer 1

inability to form new memories. (can be classically condition tho)

Question 2

What is retrograde amnesia?

Answer 2

inability to remember the past

Question 3

What if we can’t encode memroies

Answer 3

you won’t remember it. too bad so sad

Question 4

What is storage decay?

Answer 4

Memories that are discarded.

Question 5

What is retrieval failure?

Answer 5

inability to recall information because of lack of retrieval cues

Question 6

What is Proactive interference?

Answer 6

prior learning disrupts recall of new info

Question 7

What is Retroactive interference?

Answer 7

new learning disrupts recall of old information

Question 8

What is Positive Transfer?

Answer 8

Previous learned information often facilitates our learning of new information

Question 9

What is repressing?

Answer 9

Freud’s belief that we banish emotional/traumatic information from our memory

Question 10

What is reconsolidation?

Answer 10

Previously stored memories, when being retrieved, are slightly altered before being stored again.

Question 11

What is the Misinformation Effect?

Answer 11

Misleading information distorts ones memory of an event

Question 12

What is the frailest part of memory?

Answer 12

The source.

Question 13

What is source amnesia?

Answer 13

Faulty for where/when/how information was learned

Question 14

How good/bad are childrens memories?

Answer 14

They are good, but can be easily molded unless the use of neutral language occurs

Question 15

How to improve your memory?

Answer 15

1) Rehearse Repeatedly
2) Make material meaningful
3) Activate retrieval cues
4) Use mnemonics
6) Lower pro/retro interference
7) Sleep.
8) Test urself