3.2 HW Flashcards
absentmindedness
A position of unawareness when a person’s thought processes are overwhelming enough to distract them from their surrounding environment.
transience
The decreasing ability to retrieve and access memories over time.
misattribution
the ability to remember information correctly, but being wrong about the source of that information.
suggestibility
the quality of being inclined to accept and act on the suggestions of others.
bias
prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
persistence
a personality trait that causes a person to persevere in a task despite obstacles or frustrations rather than simply giving up.
encoding failure
failure to process information into memory
Ebbinghaus forgetting curve
shows the rate at which memories are lost over time.
proactive interference
Memory problem that occurs when older information prevents or interferes with the learning or retrieval of newer information
retroactive interference
Memory problem that occurs when newer information prevents or interferes with the retrieval of older information.
repression
Psychological defense mechanism in which the person refuses to consciously remember a threatening or unacceptable event, instead pushing those events into the unconscious mind.
memory construction
Encoding, Storage
Elizabeth Loftus
an American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory
misinformation effect
when we witness an event and then get some incorrect information about that event, we incorporate that incorrect information (misinformation) into our memory of the event.
source amnesia
the inability to remember where, when or how previously learned information has been acquired, while retaining the factual knowledge.
