PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Amnesia, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Interference theory: regarding human memory: occurs in learning when there"s interaction with new material, transfer effects of past learned behavior, memories, or thoughts that may (negatively) influence learning new material, proactive interference. Past material interferes with recall of newer material (makes it harder to remember new memory) New information interferes with ability to recall older information. Forgetting process is not a linear decline; we don"t totally forget we just don"t remember everything there is a plateau (refer to graph in. A child"s memory capabilities improve as they age. Encoding failure: lack of attention, lack of deep processing. Failure to encode details that are not important to us encoding failures: prevents information from entering long-term memory. Retrieval failure: failure to retrieve a memory most common causes of forgetting. Motivated forgetting: actively working to forget memories (e. g. traumatic or disturbing events/experiences, suppression conscious way of forgetting, repression unconscious way of forgetting. Forgetting short terms short term memory is up to 20 seconds.
