forgetting flascards

Flashcards — Forgetting (with Examples)

Encoding Failure
→ Information never stored
→ Example: Forgetting a name right after hearing it

Storage Decay
→ Memory weakens over time
→ Example: Forgetting most of yesterday’s lesson

Retrieval Failure
→ Memory exists but can’t be accessed
→ Example: Word “on the tip of your tongue”

Proactive Interference
→ Old blocks new
→ Example: Old phone number interferes with new one

Retroactive Interference
→ New blocks old
→ Example: New locker combo blocks old one

Anterograde Amnesia
→ Can’t form new memories
→ Example: Forgetting events minutes after they happen

Retrograde Amnesia
→ Loss of old memories
→ Example: Forgetting childhood friends

Suppression
→ Conscious forgetting
→ Example: Avoiding thinking about a test

Repression
→ Unconscious forgetting
→ Example: Traumatic childhood memory buried