Unit 7 - Module 33

Question 1

Encoding Failure

Answer 1

never encoded or stored

Question 2

Storage Decay (Forgetting Curve)

Answer 2

course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time

Question 3

Retrieval Failure

Answer 3

can’t be recalled; on tip of the tongue

Question 4

Proactive Interference

Answer 4

old memories interfere with new

Question 5

Retrograde Interference

Answer 5

new memories interfere with old

Question 6

Motivated Forgetting

Answer 6

repress painful or unacceptable memories to protect self concept and minimize anxiety

Question 7

Repression

Answer 7

psychoanalytic theory; basic defense mechanism banishes anxious memories from consciousness

Question 8

Misinformation Effect

Answer 8

incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event

Question 9

Source Amnesia

Answer 9

attributing an event we heard, experienced, read, or imagined to the wrong source

Question 10

Deja Vu

Answer 10

eerie sense of “I’ve experienced this before”