Module 33

Question 1

anterograde amnesia

Answer 1

an inability to form new memories.

Question 2

retrograde amnesia

Answer 2

an inability to retrieve information from one’s past.

Question 3

proactive interference

Answer 3

the forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information.

Question 4

retroactive interference

Answer 4

the backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information

Question 5

repression

Answer 5

in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

Question 6

reconsolidation

Answer 6

a process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again

Question 7

misinformation effect

Answer 7

occurs when misleading information has distorted one’s memory of an event.

Question 8

source amnesia

Answer 8

faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined.

Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories. (Also called source mis-attribution.)

Question 9

déjà 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.