DISTURBANCES OF MEMORY Flashcards
function by which information stored in the brain is later reca led to consciousness
Memory
partial or total inability to recall past experiences; may be organic or emotional in origin.
Amnesia
falsification of memory by distortion of reca l.
Paramnesia
false recognition.
Fausse reconnaissance
memory becomes unintentionaly (unconsciously) distorted by being filtered through patient’s present emotional, cognitive, and experiential state.
Retrospective falsification
unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagined or untrue experiences that patient believes but that have no basis in fact; most often associated with organic pathology.
Confabulation
illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is correctly regarded as a repetition of a previous memory.
Déjà vu
illusion of auditory recognition.
Déjà entendu
illusion that a new thought is recognized as a thought previously felt or expressed.
Déjà pense
false feeling of unfamiliarity with a real situation one has experienced.
Jamias vu
a person’s recolection and belief by the patient of an event that did not actua ly occur.
False memory
exaggerated degree of retention and reca l.
Hypermnesia
visual memory of almost hallucinatory vividness.
Eidetic image
a consciously tolerable memory covering for a painful memory.
Screen memory
a defense mechanism characterized by unconscious forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses.
Repression
