PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Forgetting Curve, Implicit Memory
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Still, it can certainly be frustrating to forget something. Hm had a damaged memory after his hippocampus was removed. Never really learned it in the first place. Proactive interference: when something old blocks you from learning something new. Retroactive interference: when something you newly learned makes is harder to retrieve something old. Directed forgetting: telling someone to forget something. Seen in experiments where they tell you to look at a list of words and then tell you to forget them, and then show you another list of words to remember. Repression (freud): having an anxiety provoking incident so you try to forget about it. Accidentally telling someone a story they told you in the first place (source amnesia) Made a list of words that had to do with a window but did not include the actual word window, yet people claimed to see it on the list. Studying may work better if you space apart your classes or sections.
