Psych 100: Ch 7.3

Question 0

Retroactive Interference

acting backward

Answer 0

New materials increase forgetting of old materials

Question 1

Proactive Interference

acting forward in time

Answer 1

Old materials increase forgetting of new materials

Question 2

Recovered Memories

Answer 2

Reports of long-lost memories, prompted by clinical techniques

Question 3

Repression

Answer 3

The process of moving an unbearably unacceptable memory or impulse from the conscious mind to the unconscious mind

Question 4

Dissociation

Answer 4

Memory that one has stored but cannot retrieve

Question 5

False Memory
(or false report)

Answer 5

An inaccurate report that someone believes to be a memory

Question 6

Amnesia

Answer 6

Loss of memory

Question 7

Hippocampus

Answer 7

A large forebrain structure in the interior of the temporal lobe

Question 8

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 8

Inability to store new long-term memories

Question 9

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 9

Loss of memory for events that occurred shortly before the brain damage

Question 10

Korsakoff’s Syndrome

Answer 10

A condition caused by a prolonged deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine), usually as a result of chronic alcoholism

Question 11

Confabulations

Answer 11

Attempts to fill in the gaps in their memory

Question 12

Alzheimer’s Disease

Answer 12

A condition occurring mostly in old age, characterized by increasingly severe memory loss, confusion, depression, disordered thinking, and impaired attention

Question 13

Infant Amnesia

or childhood amnesia

Answer 13

Scarcity of early episodic memories