Ap Psych 2.7 and 2.8

The forgetting curve

illustrates how time impacts memory retention

Encoding Failure:

Information never properly encoded into long-term memory

Proactive Interference:

Old information hinders the recall of new information

Retroactive Interference:

New information makes it hard to recall old information

Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

Knowing that you know something but being unable to recall it at the moment

Psychodynamic psychology

A branch of psychology rooted in the ideas of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

who believed in the impact of an unconscious mind and its motives on our behavior

Repression

According to psychodynamic theorists, some memories are forgotten to protect the ego from distress

Misinformation Effect

Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event

Source Amnesia

Inability to remember where, when, or how previously learned information was acquired.

Constructive Memory

creating partly false memories through normative memory consolidation practices enhanced by imagination inflation

Memory Consolidation

The process by which memories become stable in the brain

Imagination Inflation

Enhanced memory for imagined events, which can lead to false memories

General ability

A single, broad cognitive factor that underlies all specific mental tasks and predicts overall performance on academic tasks

multiple specific abilities

The view that intelligence is not one thing, but rather a set of distinct, relatively independent mental capacities or domains