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what is positivity bias?
the tendency, increasing over a lifespan, to recall more pleasant memories than either neutral or unpleasant ones
what is emotion regulation?
goal-driven monitoring, evaluating, altering, and gating one’s emotional reactions and memories about emotional experiences
what is repression?
In psychoanalytic theory, a psychological defense mechanism that banishes unwanted memories, ideas, and feelings into the unconscious in an effort to reduce conflict and psychic pain. Theoretically, repression can either be conscious or nonconscious. Often, the term suppression is used to refer to the conscious variety
what is psychogenic amnesia?
profound and surprising episodes of forgetting the events of one’s life, arising from psychological factors, rather than biological damage or dysfunction
what is directed forgetting?
the tendency for an instruction to forget recently experienced items to induce memory impairment for those items
what is retrieval inhibition hypothesis?
a proposed mechanism underlying list-method directed forgetting suggesting that first-list items are temporarily inhibited in response to the instruction to forget and can be reactivated by subsequent presentation of the to-be-forgotten items
what is context shift hypothesis?
an alternative explanation for list-method directed forgetting, positing that forget instructions separate first-list items into a distinct context, which unless reinstated during the final test will make the later context a relatively ineffectual retrieval cue
what is cognitive control?
the ability to flexibly control thoughts in accordance with our goals, including our ability to stop unwanted thoughts from rising to consciousness
what is the think/no-think paradigm?
a procedure designed to study the ability to volitionally suppress retrieval of a memory when confronted with reminders
what is suppression-induced forgetting?
the impaired memory for a target item that often results when a person intentionally stops or suppresses the episodic retrieval of that target item triggered by a reminder cue
what is psychogenic fugue?
a form of psychogenic amnesia typically lasting a few hours or days following a severe trauma, in which afflicted individuals forget their entire life history, including who they are
what is spontaneous recovery?
the term arising from the classical conditioning literature given to the re-emergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a delay; similarly; forgotten declarative memories have been observed to recover over time
what is reminiscence?
the remembering again of the forgotten, without learning or a gradual process of improvement in the capacity to revive past experiences
what is hypermnesia?
the improvement in recall performance arising from repeated testing session on the same material
