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Flashcards by Greg MacPherson, updated 5 months ago
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| Unit Four - Module 29 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges | Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges |
| hyperthymesia | Hyperthymesia is an ability that allows people to remember nearly every event of their life with great precision. |
| adaptive forgetting | The ability to suppress information that we no longer deem necessary, thereby making it easier to remember that which we do believe is important. |
| anterograde amnesia | An inability to form new memories. |
| retrograde amnesia | An inability to retrieve information from one's past. |
| dissociative amnesia | You can't recall information about yourself or events and people in your life, especially from a traumatic time. |
| encoding failure | The failure to process information into memory. |
| displacement | Information that is not encoded for long-term storage will be lost as new information enters short-term memory. |
| storage decay | The gradual loss or fading of information - the physical memory trace - from memory over time. |
| retrieval failure | A type of forgetting that occurs when information that has been previously encoded and stored in long-term memory cannot be accessed or retrieved when needed. |
| proactive interference | Proactive interference occurs when prior learning disrupts the recall of new information. For example, if you change your phone password, your well-rehearsed old password may interfere with your retrieval of the new one. |
| retroactive interference | Retroactive interference occurs when new learning disrupts recall of old information. For example, if someone sings new lyrics to the tune of an old song, you may have trouble remembering the original words. |
| positive transfer | Previous learning can facilitate our learning of new information. For example, having already learned Latin may facilitate the learning of Spanish. |
| repression | In psychodynamic theory, the basic defence mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories. |
| suppression | Suppression is the voluntary form of repression proposed by Sigmund Freud. It is the conscious process of pushing unwanted, anxiety-provoking thoughts, memories, emotions, fantasies and desires out of awareness. |
| reconsolidation | A process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before stored again. |
| constructive processing | The retrieval of memories in which those memories are altered, revised, or influenced by newer information. |
| levelling | A type of constructive processing in memory retrieval where material in the story gets simplified and loses detail, because the teller makes judgments about which details are important. |
| sharpening | A type of constructive processing in memory retrieval where the teller makes judgments about what information is important and highlights or overemphasizes details. |
| assimilation | A type of constructive processing in memory retrieval where the teller changes details for a better fit with their own preconceived notions or knowledge. |
| misinformation effect | Occurs when misleading information has distorted one's memory of an event. |
| source amnesia | The faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined. (It is also referred to as source misattribution). |
| déjà vu | Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. |
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Elizabeth Loftus
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American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies. |
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