AP Psychology Module 33 Flashcards

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