Module 2.7

Question 1

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 1

An inabilty to form new memories.

Question 2

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 2

An inabiluty to remember informationf rom one’s past.

Question 3

Proactive Interference

Answer 3

The foward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the eecall of new information.

Question 4

Retroactice Interference

Answer 4

The backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learnin on the recall of old information.

Question 5

Repression

Answer 5

In psychoanalytic theorym the basic defense mchanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

Question 6

Reconsoldiation

Answer 6

A process in which previosuly stored memories, when retrieved, are potnetially altered before being stored again.

Question 7

Misinformation Effect

Answer 7

Occurs when a memory has been corupted by misleading information.

Question 8

Source Amnesia

Answer 8

Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learne or imagined (as when misattributing information to a wrong source). Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.

Question 9

Deja Vu

Answer 9

That eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.