Amnesia and Bartlett

Question 1

Amnesia

Answer 1

Loss of long term memory as the result of injury, disease or trauma.

Question 2

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 2

Loss of memory of events that occured before development of amnesia.

Question 3

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 3

Loss of memory of events that occured after development of amnesia, impaired ability to learn and remember new things.

Question 4

Schema

Answer 4

Patterns of thoughts or behaviours that organize categories of information and the relationships among them.

Question 5

Active Reconstruction

Answer 5

Remembering a small amount about an event, and elaborating on it with knowledge of similar events. Therefore the memory is not an exact recollection, just a construct.

Question 6

Omission

Answer 6

Leaving out unpleasant or irrelevant details while remembering something.

Question 7

Transformation

Answer 7

Details being changed to seem more rational to us.

Question 8

Familiarisation

Answer 8

Changing unfamiliar details in memories to align with our own schema.

Question 9

Rationalisation

Answer 9

Adding details to a recall to make it align with our schema.