PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Anterograde Amnesia, Childhood Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia
Document Summary
Forgetting tends to occur more rapidly at first, then slows down: most of forgotten information occurs right away, then only a little forgotten over rest of time. Encoding failure information was never encoded into long term memory. Decay theory proposes that with time and disuse, the physical memory trace in the nervous system fades: problem in prediction that longer intervals of disuse cause increased decay of information. Phenomenon where more material is recalled during second testing. Two types of interference: of information than the first: proactive interference. Motivated forgetting: motivational processes (e. g. repression) may protect us by blocking the recall of anxiety-arousing memories. Retrograde amnesia: memory loss for events that occurred prior to the onset of amnesia. Anterograde amnesia memory loss for events that occur after the initial onset of amnesia. Infantile amnesia: memory loss for events that occurred during the first few years of our lives.
