forgetting, memory construction, and improving memory (module 33)

Anterograde Amnesia: An inability to form new memories.

Retrograde Amnesia: An inability to retrieve information from one's past.

Proactive Interference: The forward-acting disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.

Retroactive Interference: The backward-acting disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.

Repression: In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

Reconsolidation: A process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again.

Misinformation Effect: Occurs when misleading information has distorted one's memory of an event.

Source Amnesia: Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined (also called source misattribution).

Déjà Vu: That eerie sense that "I've experienced this before," where cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.

Schemas: Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information, which can influence how memories are encoded and recalled.

Imagination Inflation: A phenomenon where repeatedly imagining an event or action increases a person's confidence that the event actually occurred.