PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Interference Theory, Executive Functions, Synapse
22 Mar 2016
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We normally only noice forgeing when it happens despite our intent to remember something. Case study of aj: 41 years, remembers every day of her life, in detail, since her teens, feels like she relives remembered events. Not under conscious control: can verify events with the diary she keeps, superior memory has costs. Incidental forgeing: occurs without the intenion to forget. Moivated forgeing: occurs when people purposefully engage in processes/behaviours that intenionally diminish a memory"s accessibility. Forgeing increases as ime progresses: ebbinghaus memory for nonsense syllables. A logarithmic relaionship between ime and forgeing: a rapid rate of forgeing iniially, less addiional forgeing at longer delays. Recognize and name classmates ater delays up to 30 years. Relaively unimpaired ability to: recognize classmates" faces/names, match names to portraits. Extensive impairment: recalling a name, which only a person"s portrait. Reducion in recall (but not recogniion) of well-learned personal material closely follows ebbinghaus forgeing curve.
