Unit 7: Part 2 Flashcards
Anterograde amnesia
An inability to form new memories
Retrograde amnesia
An inability to retrieve information from ones past
Encoding failure
Much of what we sense we never notice, and what we fail to encode, we will never remember-inability to get into storage
Storage decay
Memories that fade over time
Retrieval failure
The feeling of knowing something but being unable to “retrieve” or remember it - inability to get memories out of storage
Proactive interference
The forward-acting disrupted effect of older learning on the recall of new information
Retroactive interference
The backward-acting disrupted effect of newer learning on the recall of old information
Repression
The defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness and anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
Reconsolidation
A process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again
Elizabeth loftus
Testing misinformation effects
Misinformation effect
Occurs when misleading information has distorted ones memory of an event
Source amnesia
Faulty memory for how, when, and where information was learned or imagined
Deja vu
Th eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before”
Cognition
All the mental activity associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
Concepts
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
