PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Natural Disaster, Sq3R, Sigmund Freud
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A: anterograde amnesia is an inability to form new memories. Retrograde amnesia is an inability to retrieve old memories. Normal forgetting can happen because we have never encoded information (encoding failure); because the physical trace has decayed (storage decay); or because we cannot retrieve what we have encoded and stored (retrieval failure). Retrieval problems may result from proactive (forward-acting) interference, as prior learning interferes with recall of new information, or from retroactive (backward-acting) interference, as new learning disrupts recall of old information. Some believe that motivated forgetting occurs, but researchers have found little evidence of repression. If we remembered everything, we would have difficulty in thinking abstractly generalizing, organizing, evaluating. Anterograde amnesia: an inability to form new memories. Such as what happens when you remove parts of the hippocampus. Although incapable of recalling new facts or anything they have done recently, molaison, Jimmie, and others with similar conditions can learn nonverbal tasks.
