Forgetting

Question 0

Displacement

Answer 0

Items are pushed out of memory by other items; applies only to short-term memory and sensory memory, not long-term memory.

Question 1

Decay

Answer 1

Memory becomes a eroded because we have not used it for a while.

Question 2

Primacy effect

Answer 2

Higher likelihood of remembering earlier rather than later information.

Question 3

Recency effect

Answer 3

Higher likelihood of remembering information presented at the end of a task.

Question 4

Reconstructive nature of memory

Answer 4

Remembering by combining elements of experience with existing knowledge; often through use of schemas, organize knowledge structures stored in memory that are used to guide comprehension and memory.

Question 5

Interference in long-term memory

Answer 5

Can occur via proactive interference, early learning disrupt later learning, or retroactive interference, later learning disrupts earlier learning.

Question 6

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 6

Patient cannot form new memories after brain injury.

Question 7

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 7

Patient cannot remember events prior to brain injury.