Module 33 - Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory

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 (forward-acting) interference

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Retroactive (backward-acting) 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 (source misattribution)

Answer 8

Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined. Along with the misinformation effect, it is the reason for many false memories

Question 9

Déjà vu

Answer 9

The sense that one has experienced something before. Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience