6083344794 | Anterograde Amnesia | An inability to form new memories. | 0 | |
6083348903 | Retrograde Amnesia | An inability to retrieve information from one's past. | 1 | |
6083354450 | Proactive Interference | The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. | 2 | |
6083356703 | Retroactive Interference | The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. | 3 | |
6083359689 | Repression | In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories. | 4 | |
6083368407 | Misinformation Effect | Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event. | 5 | |
6083372583 | Source Amnesia | Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. | 6 | |
6083372584 | Déjà vu | That eerie sense that "I've already experienced this before". | 7 | |
6084148206 | Elizabeth Loftus | Shown how eyewitnesses reconstruct their memories after a crime or an accident. (Promotes the misinformation effect) | 8 | |
6084167606 | Encoding Failure | Much of what we sense we never notice, and what we fail to code, we will never remember. | 9 | |
6084173865 | Retrieval Failure | Often, forgetting is not memories faded but memories unretrieved. | 10 | |
6084180290 | Storage Decay | The course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time. | 11 |
AP Psychology Module 33 Flashcards
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