PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Sigmund Freud, Psy
17 Sep 2020
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A lot of times, our unpredictable memory dismays and frustrates us. Anterograde amnesia: an inability to form new memories. Retrograde amnesia: an inability to retrieve information from one"s past. A lot of times, we forget due to encoding failure: age effects encoding efficiency. The course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time. Even after we encode something well, we sometimes forget later. Often, forgetting is not memories faded but memories we can"t retrieve. Sometimes we just can"t access important events. Sometimes, retrieval problem occasionally stem from inference and motivated forgetting. As you collect more information, your brain gets filled and cluttered. Proactive inference: the forward acting disruptive effect of prior learning on the. Retroactive inference: the backward acting disruptive effect of new learning on recall of new information the recall of old information. To remember our past, it is often revised. Memories fail us because memory is unreliable.
