Psyc1010 Chapter 8.3

Both involve the loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma. With anterograde amnesia, you cannot remember new information; however, you can remember information and events that happened prior to your injury. Retrograde amnesia is the exact opposite: you experience loss of memory for events that occurred before the trauma.

Compare and contrast the two types of amnesia.

Both are types of forgetting caused by a failure to retrieve information. With retroactive interference, new information hinders the ability to recall older information. With proactive interference, it's the opposite: old information hinders the recall of newly learned information.

Compare and contrast the two types of interference.

construction; reconstruction

The formulation of new memories is sometimes called ________, and the process of bringing up old memories is called ________. construction; reconstruction reconstruction; construction production; reproduction reproduction; production

blocking

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is also known as ________. persistence misattribution transience blocking

egocentric bias

________ is when our recollections of the past are done in a self-enhancing manner. stereotypical bias egocentric bias hindsight bias enhancement bias

misinformation effect paradigm

after exposure to incorrect information, a person may misremember the original event

suggestibility

effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories

persistence

failure of the memory system that involves the involuntary recall of unwanted memories, particularly unpleasant ones

construction

formulation of new memories

bias

how feelings and view of the world distort memory of past events

retroactive interference

information learned more recently hinders the recall of older information

absentmindedness

lapses in memory that are caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else

forgetting

loss of information from long-term memory

amnesia

loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma

anterograde amnesia

loss of memory for events that occur after the brain trauma

retrograde amnesia

loss of memory for events that occurred prior to brain trauma

transience

memory error in which unused memories fade with the passage of time

blocking

memory error in which you cannot access stored information

misattribution

memory error in which you confuse the source of your information

proactive interference

old information hinders the recall of newly learned information

reconstruction

process of bringing up old memories that might be distorted by new information

false memory syndrome

recall of false autobiographical memories