Forgetting

Forgetting

1. Decay of memory trace

   • You either use it or lose it 

2. Interference

   • Retroactive
     • new learning interfences with old memory 
   • Proactive
     • when old learning interfers with new learning  learning something wrong the first time 

3. Poor encoding

   • when you cannot retreive it because you didn't put the effort into learning 

4. Motivated Forgetting

   • freud  When you choose things that you don't want remember and then you block it out

5. Organic Causes

   • natural causes for problems in the brain
   • Disease
     • such as altighmers  or different diseases in the brain
   • Amnesia
     • forgetting due to an injury 
     • Retrograde
       • Lost memory for events before the injury
     • Anterograde
       • lost memory for events after the accident  50 first dates

6. Old age

   • normal age related effects the short term  the speed of rehersal slows down and your capicity shrinks