forgetting

anterograde amnesia

an inablity to form new memories.

retrograde amnesia

an inability to remember information from one's past

proactive interference

the forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information.

retroactive interference

the backward-acting disruptive efffect of newer learning on the recall of old infomation.

repression

in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciouness anxiety-arousing thoughts,feeling, and memories.

misinformation effect

occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading information

source amnesia

faulty memory of how,when, or where information was learned or imagined (as when misattruibuted information to a wrong source) source amnesia, along with misinfomation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.

deja vu

that eerie sense that "i've experience this before" Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger reterival of an eariler experience.