AP Psychology Modules 33 & 34
Anterograde Amnesia
An inability to form new memories, can recall past but not form new memories
Retrograde Amnesia
An inability to retrieve information from one's past
Bruck and Ceci study
asked children to point out where they had been touched by pediatricians and found 55% of the children who had never had a genital examination claimed they did. 58% of preschoolers believe in their false memories, even making up vivid, descriptive stories.
Source Amnesia
attribution to the wrong source and event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (Also called source misattribution.) this along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories
Elizabeth Loftus and Palmer
did expirements on eyewitnesses recalling their accounts of crimes, discovering the misinformation effect
Jenkins and Dallenbach study
discovered information presented an hour before sleep is immune to retrograde amneisa bc there is less intereference
divergent thinking
expands on a number of possible solutions using creative thinking (english)
Repression
in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
Misinformation Effect
incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
cognition
mental activities associated with thinking, remembering and communicating.
concepts
mental groupings of similar objects
convergent thinking
narrows available solutions down to one, single solution (math)
Deja vu
that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
forgetting curve
the course of forgetting is initially rapid, but then levels off with time (Ebbinghaus)
Retroactive Interference
the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
Proactive Interference
the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.