psych chapter 7- Interference & amnesia
proactive interference
Adaliah is very embarrassed because she just called her new boyfriend by her old boyfriend's name. She tries to explain to her boyfriend that it is a common error because since she was with her old boyfriend for so much longer that name is preventing her from thinking of his name right now. What is the problem?
retograde amnesia
After a car accident an individual finds that although they make a complete recovery they cannot remember the events immediately leading up to the accident. They are however able to remember what happened after they arrived at the hospital. What is the cause?
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Fritz is trying to remember the phone number of his best friend when he was a child whose name was Frieda. Fritz and Frieda were friends when he was ten years old and living in San Diego, California. He really wants to get in touch with her but he cannot remember her phone number.
proactive interference
Hans a Swedish sing dancer is competing with his partner in a national competition. He is having trouble learning the new routine because his knowledge of the last routine he learned is blocking his memory. What is causing Hans' memory problem?
anterograde amnesia
In the animated film Finding Nemo, the regal blue dish named Dory suffers from severe memory loss. Although Dory is able to remember her past well, she is unable to transfer new info from STM to LTM and as such cannot form new memories. What causes her problem?
anterograde amnesia
Leif is experiencing a memory disorder that prevents him from forming any new long term memories. What's his condition?
N/A
Niles is trying to remember the capital of Honduras to answer a difficult question on his history exam and cannot recall the name and the city despite using a variety of memory retrieval cues.
proactive interference
Petra is trying to remember what the committee selected as this year's theme for Prom to tell her mom, but for some reason she can only think of last year's theme. What is causing her memory problem?
retrograde amnesia
Secret agent and government assassin Jason Bourne suffered a major loss of memory after a severe physical injury and forgot his past and what occurred before he was hurt. What's the cause?
retroactive interference
Vilhem who is Swedish has started studying Hungarian after he has already learned Romanian. When he is asked a question in Romanian he answers in Hungarian. What is the cause?
anterograde amnesia
following a series of illness which caused damage to the patient's hippocampus they suffered serious permanent side effects including the inability to create any long-term memories. Problem?
anterograde amnesia
in this condition individuals experience an inability to create new long term memories after a traumatic event or brain injury or brain illness.
retrograde amnesia
in which condition do individuals experience a loss of memory for events that occured before a traumatic event or brain injury or brain illness? The amount of memory loss may be for as short as a few minutes or many years.
proactive interference
in which memory retrieval problem does an individual have a problem recalling newly acquired info because older learning is blocking these memories?
retroactive interference
in which memory retrieval problem does an individual have a problem recalling previously learned material because more recent learning has blocked these memories?
Cerebellum
individuals who suffer anterograde and or retrograde amnesia as a result of damage to their medial temporal lobes still have the ability to use and create new procedural memories. This is due to the fact that these memories are related to a different area of the brain. Which area of the brain?
