Forgetting Memories

Forgetting Curve

Hermann Ebbinghaus
At the beginning we lose a lot of information, but the info that gets moved to long term memory stays w/ us for a long period.
*know the graph*

Encoding Failure

Can’t remember b/c we don’t fully understand

Proactive Interference

Old knowledge interferes w/ new learning

Retroactive Interference

New learning interfere w/ old memories

Inadequate Retrieval

Tip of the tongue

Repression

Traumatic event and bury it into unconscious mind.

Misinformation Effect

Person memories are altered due to outside source.

Constructive Memory

Memories are altered b/c we reconstruct them. Influences by new knowledge or other peoples influences

Imagination Inflation

Story gets bigger due to imagination

Memory Consolidation

Memories gets shorter b/c of our brains method of organization

Amnesia

Loss of memory

Source Amnesia

Can recall info, but cannot remember where, how, when they got it.

Retrograde Amnesia

Forgetting things before an event

Anterograde Amnesia

Inability to create and store new memories

Alzheimer’s

Little Acetocholyne, making them forget

Infantile Amnesia

People do not retain information before age of 3