Forgetting Memories Flashcards
What can forgetting be due to?
-Shallow level of processing
-Interruption of consolidation processes
-Different contexts or cues
-Interference from new memories
What are 4 types of forgetting
-Cue dependent/context dependent forgetting
-State-dependent forgetting
-Incidental forgetting
-Motivated forgetting
What is incidental forgetting
Memory failures without the intention to forget
What are the two types of incidental forgetting
Interference-based forgetting and retrieval induced forgetting
What is motivated forgetting
Intentional forgetting or/and forgetting triggered by motivations without conscious intentionWh
What are the two types of motivated forgetting
Directed forgetting and retrieval suppression
What is Retroactive interference
The tendency for more recently acquired information to impeded the retrieval of similar older memories
What is proactive interference
The tendency for earlier memories to disrupt the ability to retrieve more recent memories
What properties does retrieval induced forgetting have?
-Generalise to novel test cue
-Requires active retrieval from long-term memory
-Unaffected by strengthening an item
-Stronger for high-frequency competitors
-Competitors only inhibited if attentional control suppresses distractors
What is directed forgetting?
Impairment in long-term memory caused by instructions to forget information
What is amnesia
Loss of long term memory
What is anterograde amnesia
The inability to form long-term memories for events that occurred AFTER brain surgery or trauma
What is Retrograde amnesia
The inability to remember events that happened BEFORE brain surgery or trauma (old memories are missing)
What is infantile amnesia
The tendency for people to have a few autobiographical memories from an early age
