Psychology ch 6 part 4
Hermann Ebbinghaus
German psychologist who conducted pioneering research on forgetting. His famous forgetting curve shows a rapid loss of memories of relatively meaningless information, followed by a very gradual decline of the remaining information.
rich false memories
Recollections of an event that never occurred, which are expressed with emotions and confidence and include details
Elizabeth Loftus
She is an American psychologist and expert on human memory. She has conducted extensive research on the misinformation effect and the nature of false memories.
saving score
The amount of time saved when relearning something (as opposed to learning it for the first time) is called the ___________.
curve of forgetting
a graph showing a distinct pattern in which forgetting is very fast within the first hour after learning a list and then tapers off gradually
proactive interferance
an earlier memory blocks you from remembering related new information
tip of the tongue phenomenon
experience of knowing that we know something but being unable to access it
encoding failure
failure to process information into memory
storage failure
failure to successfully store the info in memory
misinformation effect
incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event
reconstructionist model
memories are understood as creative blending of fact and fiction
where does forgetting stem from?
problems with encoding and storage
retroactive interference
when new learning disrupts the recall of previously-learned information