Textbook Chapter 8

Question 1

flashbulb memory

Answer 1

a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

Question 2

What is long-term potentiation

Answer 2

An increase in a nerve cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation, a neural basis for learning and memory

Question 3

What is anterograde amnesia?

Answer 3

failure to remember new information

Question 4

What is retrograde amnesia?

Answer 4

people who can’t remember their past– old info stored in LTM

Question 5

What is proactive inteference?

Answer 5

forward-acting disruption– old stuff disrupts remembering new stuff

Question 6

What is retroactive interference?

Answer 6

backward-acting disruption– new stuff makes it hard to recall old stuff

Question 7

what is repression?

Answer 7

freud– banish anxiety inducing or embarrassing memories

Question 8

What are the three ways we forget?

Answer 8

1. encoding failure
2. retrieval failure (interference and motivated forgetting)
3. storage decay

Question 9

What is reconsolidation?

Answer 9

previously stored memories are retrieved, altered, and then re-stored incorrectly

Question 10

What is the misinformation effect?

Answer 10

when exposed to misleading information (misinformation), our memory is corrupted

Question 11

What is source amnesia?

Answer 11

faulty memory for how, when, or where something is learned