PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Memory Disorder, Episodic Memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus
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It doesn"t come out just the way it came in. Doesn"t lead you to think it was really there. Even though we think we forgot something, we still have it o. Some part of memory that we think we forgot is in savings. If you don"t learn it, you"re not going to be able to retrieve it. Decay theory: with time and disuse the long term physical memory trace in the nervous system fades away, doesn"t have much support/physical evidence to back this up though. Interference: competition from other material: other things get in the way, new information interferes with the information you"re trying to remember, retroactive interference: New information gets in the way of previously learned information. A-b-a (b get"s in the way of a) o. Old material learned in the past interferes with recalling new information. A-b-b (old information a is interfering with new information b) Memory loss due to special conditions o.
