PSY100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Rating, Mania, Clozapine
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Forgetting: inability to retrieve memory from long term storage. Normal forgetting help us remember and use important information. Schacter = seven sins of memory: transcience, absentmindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, persistence post traumatic. 1,2,3 are forgetting: transience pattern of forgetting over time. Forgetting = memory decay in ns unused memory forgotten. But really: because of interference from other information. Interference from other information can lead to forgetting by proactive interference vs retroactive interference. Proactive = old info inhibits the ability to remember new ones (old phone # blocks remembering new one) Retroactive = new inhibits old (new phone # makes forget old one: blocking person temporarily is unable to remember something. Tip of the tongue phenomena brown and mcneill. Blocking occurs because of interference from other words that are similar in some way (sound/meaning: absentmindedness inattentive or shallow encoding of events. Forgetting where you put your keys or forgetting name of person you met 5 mins ago, change blindness too.
