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Chapter 24 - Exploring Psychology in Modules
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- 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 anxietyarousing 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.
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