LearningCurve 7b. Forgetting; Memory Construction Errors, and Improving Memory

Walid has been working 70-hour work weeks and has been getting his days and nights mixed up. He also has been having trouble separating his dreams from reality. Just yesterday he thought a project had been completed, but in reality, it was only a dream. This problem is known as:

Source Amnesia.

_____ refers to faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined.

Source amnesia

In _____ interference, information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently.

proactive

"It's been 20 years!" Tim protests, to explain his failure to remember the topics of some of his college term papers in the 1990s. Tim is citing _____ as the reason for his forgetting.

storage decay

After reading a list of words aloud, people falsely recognize having read a new but similar word about _____percent of the time.

75

A "one-hit-wonder" song popular five years ago comes on the radio. "I used to love this song!" Clyde exclaims. "Who sang it?" "Oh! I know! It's . . . it's . . . . Darn! It's on the tip of my tongue!" Ralph responds. Ralph is experiencing a failure of the memory process called:

retrieval.

Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question but not being quite able to say it. This is called the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, which is a failure of:

retrieval.

Colton wakes up in a hospital. Apparently, he cannot remember anything that happened immediately following a severe head injury. Colton's BEST case demonstrates:

anterograde amnesia.

During a basketball game, Tyree suffered a concussion. Afterwards he could not remember the game or what happened when he was treated in the hospital. Tyree was experiencing:

anterograde amnesia.

While sitting in the park one day, Morris witnessed a robbery. When asked by the police to describe the "young criminal," Morris recalled erroneously that the criminal was a teenager rather than an adult. Morris' experience BEST illustrates the _____ effect.

misinformation

Ana learns some conversational Portuguese before a vacation in Brazil. However, the Spanish she used at home as a child sometimes impairs her retrieval of Portuguese words and phrases. Ana is experiencing _____interference.

proactive

Professor Yu has so many memories of former students that she has difficulty remembering the names of new students. The professor's difficulty BEST illustrates _____ interference.

proactive