Forgetting and Amnesia

Question 1

Anterograde amnesias

Answer 1

Inability to form new memories for facts and events after the onset of amnesia

Question 2

Consolidation

Answer 2

Process by which memory trace is stabilized and transformed into a more durable form.

Question 3

Decay

Answer 3

The fading of memory with the passage of time

Question 4

Declarative memory

Answer 4

Conscious memories for facts and events

Question 5

Dissociative amnesias

Answer 5

Loss of autobiographical memories from a period in the past in the absence of a brain injury or disease

Question 6

Encoding

Answer 6

Process by which information gets into the memory

Question 7

Interference

Answer 7

Other memories get in the way of retrieval of a desired memory

Question 8

Medical temporal lobes

Answer 8

Inner region of the temporal lobes that include the hippocampus

Question 9

Retrieval

Answer 9

Process by which information is accessed from memory and utilized

Question 10

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 10

Inability to retrieve memories for facts or events acquired before onset of amnesia

Question 11

Temporally graded retrograde amnesia

Answer 11

Inability to retrieve memories from just prior to the onset of amnesia with intact memory for more remote events