PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Left Brain Interpreter, The Conscious Mind, Hypnosis

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Forgetting: the inability to retrieve memory from long-term storage. Daniel schacter identified the seven sins of memory: (1) transience, (2) absentmindedness, (3) blocking, (4) misattribution, (5) suggestibility, (6) bias, (7) persistence. Transience: the pattern of forgetting over time. Recent evidence suggests most forgetting occurs because of interference from other information: proactive interference: when prior information inhibits the ability to remember new information. New locker combination can be hard to remember by being interfered with by the prior locker combination: retroactive interference: when new information inhibits the ability to remember old information. Once you remember that new locker combo, you might have a hard time remember the old one. Blocking: the temporary inability to remember something that is known: tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Blocking often occurs because of interference from words that are similar in some way, such as in sound or meaning, and that keep recurring, as when you keep calling an acquaintance.