Module 33 - Memory

Question 1

anterograde amnesia

Answer 1

an inability to form new memories

Question 2

deja vu

Answer 2

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

Question 3

misinformation effect

Answer 3

incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event.

Question 4

proactive interference

Answer 4

the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new 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

retroactive interference

Answer 6

the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.

Question 7

retrograde amnesia

Answer 7

an inability to retrieve information from one’s past.

Question 8

source amnesia

Answer 8

attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (Also called source misattribution.) Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.