2.7 Forgetting and other memories Challenges

anterograde amnesia

an inability to form new memories

retrograde amnesia

an inability to remember information from one’s past

proactive interference

the forward-acting disruptive effect of olde rlearning on the recall of new information

retroactive interference

the backward- acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information

repression

• in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety= arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

reconsolidation

a process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again

mininformation effect

occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading information

source amnesia

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

deju vu

that eerie sense that “I’ve expereiecend this before”. Cues from the current situation may unconcsciously trigger treival of an earlier expereience