Karteikarten

Module 24

Jensen Fauver Psychology Englisch 9 Karten

Karten in diesem Stapel (9)

1Anterograde AmnesiaAn inability to form new memories.
2Retrograde AmnesiaAn inability to retrieve information from one's past.
3Proactive InterferenceThe forward-acting disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
4Retroactive InterferenceThe backward-acting disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
5RepressionIn psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
6ReconsolidationA process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again.
7Misinformation EffectWhen misleading information has corrupted one's memory of an event.
8Source AmnesiaAttributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (Also called source misattribution.) Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.
9Déjà VuThat eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.