PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Interference Theory, The Selfish Gene, Displacement Activity
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A good thing: have to have a certain amount of forgetting. Trace decay- been too long since you saw you"re first movie for example. Retroactive inhibition- retroactive inhibition - likely explanation for forgetting (too much similar stuff going on in our minds) previous learned material interferes with taking in new info - proactive inhibition; likely accounts for why we forget! Freud- so horrible you don"t want to remember- motivational account for forgetting. You"d remember everything if it wasn"t for motivation i. e. sexual abuse: people forget because it was too horrible. *short term memory forgetting is linked to trace decay. *long term memory forgetting is linked too interference from other stuff. Key to a good memory: multiple indexing- find a couple of separate tags to associate with this piece of information-gives you several cues when you are trying to retrieve it. The problem is with the original encoding - kid is a shitty file clerk.