PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Recovered-Memory Therapy

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-1200
• Professor: Sandberg Elisabeth

Document Summary

Forgetting: forgetting and the two-track mind. Anterograde amnesia - the ability to recall the past but the inability to form new memories. Retrograde amnesia - the inability to recall the past. Although unable to recall new facts or anything learned recently, those with amnesia can learn nonverbal tasks: encoding failure. Without effort, many potential memories never form: storage decay. Ebbinghaus" forgetting curve: the course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels of with the time: retrieval failure. Interference: proactive interference occurs when prior learning disrupts your recall of new information, retroactive interference occurs when new learning disrupts real of old information. Information presented in the hour before sleep is protected from retroactive interference because the opportunity for interfering events is minimized: old and new learning do not always compete with each other. Previously learned info that facilitates new learning new info is called positive transfer.