forgetting and other memory challenges

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anterograde amnesia

Due to the hippocampus inability to form new memories since an accident, illness, or injury conform new implicit memories but no conscious recollection of how they learned their new skill for example 50 first dates

retrograde amnesia

inability to retrieve past memories – can remember new things

infantile amnesia

we can't remember much, if anything, before the age of five

source amnesia

Difficulty remembering where you learned something, can lead to false memories

psychogenic amnesia

memory Problem without physical causes or trauma

hermann e binghaus’s forgetting curve

taught himself lists of nonsense syllables, tested recall at various intervals, found that in the first few hours there was a rapid drop in recall, though in the long run he remember to them

amnesia issues

storing and retrieving issues

interference issues

processing information issues

interefence- proactive interference

Material learned in the past inhibits memory for material you encounter later thank PI equals past interferes

intereference- retroactive intereference

material that you encounter later inhibits material that you learned in the past think RI equals recent interferences

repression

Refers to the unconscious mechanism by which the mind prevents certain thoughts memories or feelings from entering conscious awareness typically with childhood trauma

misinformation effect

memory Distortion induced by later information

imagination inflation

memory construction that occurs when imagining an event that never happened increases confidence in the memory of the event