Forgetting

Question 0

Proactive interference

Retroactive interference

Answer 0

Remember old can’t remember new

Remember new can’t remember old

Question 1

Forgetting

Answer 1

You must use the information or you will lose it. Reactivating neural pathways
Encoding failure

Question 2

Motivated forgetting

Answer 2

Traumatized memory
Repress
Unconsciously store it

Question 3

Amnesia

Answer 3

Relation to a traumatic event. Dramatic memory loss

Question 4

Retrograde

Answer 4

Past. Forget traumatic event itself as well as loss of events prior to onset
Ex: car crash

Question 5

Anterograde

Answer 5

Loss of memory for event itself and info gained after. Difficultly laying down memories for hours days months
Ex: elderly

Question 6

Infantile

Answer 6

Memory loss prior from age 3-4

Recall memory through language

Question 7

Prospective memory

Answer 7

Forgetting things planned for future

Question 8

Constructive process

Answer 8

Don’t trust memories. Not always accurate

Question 9

Schemas

Answer 9

Organize file with other stuff

Question 10

Confirmation bias

Answer 10

Only pay attention to what supports current beliefs

Question 11

Misinformation effect

Answer 11

Info after event misleading changes memory

Question 12

Weapon focus

Answer 12

Ex: husband walks in with a gun

Focus on weapon not the person

Question 13

Source confusion

Answer 13

Remember someone else’s story

Question 14

Recovered memories

Answer 14

Recovered memory from past. Difficult to prove. Therapist can plant memories

Question 15

Brain

Answer 15

We use the whole brain. 
Thalamus- damage to thalamus can destroy memories from past and future 
Amygdala- form emotional memory 
Cerebellum- procedural memory 
Prefrontal cortex- pay attention

Question 16

Long term potentiation

Answer 16

Neurons that fire together wire together. Neurons will change structure
Ex: forgetting language

Question 17

Alzheimer’s disease
Aphasia
Apraxia
Agnosia

Answer 17

Age 85 45-50% have some sort of Alzheimer’s
Aphasia - problems remembering how to speak
Apraxia - lose ability to perform purposeful movements
Getting dressed or eating
Agnosia- inhibitory to attach meaning to sensations

Question 18

Misinformation effect

Answer 18

Exposed to misleading intonation we tend to misremember

Ex: car crash