Unit 3- Forgetting Flashcards
Forgetting
The inability to retrieve previously attainable information
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
States that overtime the ability to remember information declines
Retrieval Failure
Not being able to retrieve information
Encoding Error
Info never gets encoded to long term memory
Motivated Forgetting
Undesired memory is held back from awareness
Suppression
Conscious forgetting
Repression
Unconscious forgetting (Freud)
Decay Theory
Memories fade if they are not used.
Retroactive Interference
when a NEW memory interferes with remembering an OLD memory
Proactive Interference
When an OLD memory interferes with remembering NEW information
Reconsolidation
When retrieved memories are altered before being stored again
Imagination Inflation
Imagining an event in great detail leads you to later recall it as happening (it did not) [your imagination gets stored as a false memory]
Schema
Mental representation of an object, scene or event
Scripts
Types of schema [mental organization of events in time]
Misinformation Effect
[Loftus experiment] incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event
