Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory
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| What is an inability to form new memories? | anterograde amnesia
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| What is an inability to retrieve old memories? | retrograde amnesia
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| What is proactive interference? | the disruptive effect of something you already have learned on your efforts to learn or recall new information
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| What is retroactive interference? | the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old knowledge
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| What is repression? | an example of motivated forgetting in that anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories are prevented from entering consciousness
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| In psychoanalytic theory, what is the basic defense mechanism? | repression
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| What is the misinformation effect? | the tendency of eyewitnesses to an event to incorporate misleading information into their memories of the event
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| What is source amnesia? | also called source misattribution, it refers to attributing an event to the wrong source
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| What is deja vu? | the false sense that you have already experienced a current situation
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| Without the ability to ______, we would constantly be overwhelmed by information. | forget
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| People who cannot form new memories can learn _____ ______. | nonverbal tasks
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| Studies by Ebbinghaus and Bahrick indicate that most forgetting occurs ____ after the material is learned. | soon
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| When information that is stored in memory temporarily cannot be found, ___________ _____________ has occurred. | retrieval failure
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| Freud proposed that motivated forgetting, or _______, may protect a person from painful memories. | repression
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| Research on memory construction reveals that memories reflect what? | a person's biases and assumptions
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| Hypnotically "refreshed" memories may prove inaccurate because of what? | memory construction
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| How would you describe the typical forgetting curve? | a rapid initial decline in retention becoming stable thereafter
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| Amnesia victims typically have experienced damage to the ______ of the brain. | hippocampus
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