PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Autobiographical Memory, Implicit Memory, Source Amnesia
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Forgetting: watch: marilu henner"s superior autobiographical memory, forgetting is adaptive, still, it can certainly be frustrating to forget something, h. m. Had a damaged memory after hippocampus was removed. Never learned something well in the first place. What does a penny look like (without looking at one!) The information has faded away because it wasn"t being used. Nothing decays, it just can"t be retrieve the memory: ex. Tip of the tongue feeling: interference is a form of retrieval failure. When you activate a memory for specific information, addition/related memories are also activating and compete. Old information coming in and interfering with new information you are trying to learn. New information learned interferes with remembering older information learned: motivated forgetting. Deal with anxiety from painful experience by suppressing memories associated with the event. Memory construction errors: watch: false memories lost in a shopping mall elizabeth loftus. flv, car accident study.
