Module 25 Flashcards
What is anterograde amnesia?
An inability to form new memories
What is retrograde amnesia?
The inability to remember information from the past
What is storage decay?
Retention drop-off, rapidly drops and then plateaus out
What leads to forgetting?
Retrieval failure
What does proactive mean?
Forward-acting
What does retroactive mean?
Backwards-acting
What is proactive interference ?
Forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information
What is retroactive interference?
Backwards-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information
What did Freud propose for self-censoring information?
That we repress painful or unacceptable memories
What is reconsolidation?
A process in which previously stored memories are retrieved, and potentially altered before being stored again
What is the misinformation effect?
Despite feeling confident, we may give wrong answers, due to memories being corrupted by misleading information
What is source amnesia?
Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined, Also called source misattribution
What is another name for source amnesia?
Source misattribution
What is Deja Vu?
The eerie sense of having “already experienced something before.”
What is something that helps explain deja vu
Source amnesia
