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Intro to Psychology (PSYC101): Module 24: Forgetting, Memory Construction

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This deck covers key concepts from Module 24 of Intro to Psychology, focusing on different types of amnesia, memory processes, and theories of forgetting.

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Anterograde Amnesia

an inability to form new memories.
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Key Terms

Term
Definition
Anterograde Amnesia
an inability to form new memories.
Retrograde Amnesia
an inability to retrieve information from one’s past.
Proactive Amnesia
the forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information.
Retroactive Amnesia
the backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information.
Repression
in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
Reconsolidation
a process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again.
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Intro to Psychology (PSYC101): Module 24: Forgetting, Memory Construction
TermDefinition
Anterograde Amnesia
an inability to form new memories.
Retrograde Amnesia
an inability to retrieve information from one’s past.
Proactive Amnesia
the forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information.
Retroactive Amnesia
the backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information.
Repression
in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
Reconsolidation
a process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again.
Misinformation Effect
occurs when misleading information has corrupted one’s memory of an event.
Source of Amnesia
faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined. (Also called source misattribution.) Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.
Deja Vu
that eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
Storage Decay
memory fades due to the mere passage of time. Information is therefore less available for later retrieval as time passes and memory, as well as memory strength, wears away.
Encoding Failure
occasional failure to create and store a memory (i.e., because of a trauma).
Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve
The theory is that humans start losing the memory of learned knowledge over time, in a matter of days or weeks, unless the learned knowledge is consciously reviewed time and again.