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6.5: Memory Failures and Forgetting
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- 1anterograde amnesiamemory loss for events after amnesia; often caused by damage to hippocampal region (critical for putting new info into long-term store)
- 2retrograde amnesiamemory loss for events before amnesia
- 3Korsakoff's syndromememory disorder caused by lack in thiamine (symptoms include anterograde and retrograde amnesia)
- 4source amnesiacan remember info but can't remember how/where info originated
- 5infantile amnesiainability to remember personal experiences from first few years of our lives
- 6rouge testmirror test to see if one possesses the ability of visual self-recognition; often done on young children
- 7Alzheimer's diseaseprogressivebrain disorder; symptoms = forgetfulness, poor judgment, confusion; patients have plaques and tangles in brain
- 8plaquesclumps of protein fragments that build up on outside of neurons
- 9tanglestwisted fibers found inside the brain's cells
- 10Famous forgetting curveHerman Ebbinghaus; people start losing memory of learned knowledge over time unless knowledge is consciously reviewed again
- 11savingsEbbinghaus; relative amount of time saved on the second learning trial as a result of having had the first
- 12decay theorywith time and disuse, long-term physical memory trace in nervous system fades away
- 13transienceforgetting what occurs with passage of time; causes memories to degrade over time
- 14interferencecompetition from other material
- 15retroactive interferencesituations in which later learning impairs memory for info acquired
- 16proactive interferencesituations in which earlier learning impairs memory for info acquired later
- 17absentmindednesslapse in attention that results in memory failure
- 18blockingfailure to retrieve info that is available in memory even though you are trying to produce it; tip-of-the-tongue experience
- 19memory misattributionassigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source
- 20false recognitionfeeling of familiarity about something that hasn't been encountered before
- 21suggestibilitytendency to incorporate misleading info from external sources into personal recollections
- 22biasdistorting influences of present knowledge/beliefs on recollection of previous experiences
- 23consistency biasexaggerate similarities between past and present; bias to reconstruct past to fit present
- 24change biasexaggerate differences between what we feel/believe now and what we felt/believed in the past
- 25egocentric biastype of change bias; exaggerate change between present and past to make ourselves look good
- 26persistenceintrusive recollection of events we wish we could forget
- 27misinformation effectrecall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event info
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- Psych: Chpt 5-8, 11 Flashcards on 6.5: Memory Failures and Forgetting, created by A G on 03/11/2019.
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