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- 1Anterograde AmnesiaAn inability to form new memories.
- 2Retrograde AmnesiaAn inability to retrieve information for 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 conscious anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
- 6ReconsolidationA process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before stored again.
- 7Misinformation EffectWhen misleading information has corrupted one's memory of an event.
- 8Source AmnesiaAttributing to the wrong source of an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined; at the heart of many false memories.
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