Forgetting Flashcards
Proactive interference
Retroactive interference
Remember old can’t remember new
Remember new can’t remember old
Forgetting
You must use the information or you will lose it. Reactivating neural pathways
Encoding failure
Motivated forgetting
Traumatized memory
Repress
Unconsciously store it
Amnesia
Relation to a traumatic event. Dramatic memory loss
Retrograde
Past. Forget traumatic event itself as well as loss of events prior to onset
Ex: car crash
Anterograde
Loss of memory for event itself and info gained after. Difficultly laying down memories for hours days months
Ex: elderly
Infantile
Memory loss prior from age 3-4
Recall memory through language
Prospective memory
Forgetting things planned for future
Constructive process
Don’t trust memories. Not always accurate
Schemas
Organize file with other stuff
Confirmation bias
Only pay attention to what supports current beliefs
Misinformation effect
Info after event misleading changes memory
Weapon focus
Ex: husband walks in with a gun
Focus on weapon not the person
Source confusion
Remember someone else’s story
Recovered memories
Recovered memory from past. Difficult to prove. Therapist can plant memories
Brain
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
Long term potentiation
Neurons that fire together wire together. Neurons will change structure
Ex: forgetting language
Alzheimer’s disease
Aphasia
Apraxia
Agnosia
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
Misinformation effect
Exposed to misleading intonation we tend to misremember
Ex: car crash
