PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Retrograde Amnesia, Interference Theory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Document Summary
Memory transience is memory decay over time. The process of proactive interference occurs when old information inhibits the ability to remember new information. When you want to learn something new, but something you learned before impairs you. The process of retroactive interference occurs when new information inhibits your ability to remember old information. Blocking is a failure in memory retrieval. It often occurs when we try to recall specific information, like in the tip- of-the-tongue phenomenon. The process of shallow encoding of events is absentmindedness. This occurs primarily when we simply fail to pay attention. When we are caught up in other activities, it is especially difficult. Amnesia as a deficit in long-term memory for us to pay attention to other things. Amnesia is a loss in the ability to retrieve vast quantities of information from long-term memory. In retrograde amnesia, people lose past memories. In anterograde amnesica, people lose the ability to form.
