PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Psychogenic Amnesia, Interference Theory, Mnemic
31 Mar 2016
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Life is good, or memory makes it so: Positivity bias: the tendency, increasing over the lifespan, to recall more pleasant memories than either neutral or unpleasant ones. Emotion regulation: goal-driven monitoring, evaluating, altering, and gating ones" emotional reactions and memories about emotional experiences. Repression: in psychoanalytic theory, a psychological defense mechanism that banishes unwanted memories, ideas, and feelings into the unconscious in an effort to reduce conflict and psychic pain can either be conscious or unconscious. Repressed contents were not eliminated from the mind, but were excluded from conscious awareness. Repressed contents were not guaranteed to remain unconscious, but were thought to pop up again on later occasions return of the repressed. Repression is an automatic, defensive process by which a memory is excluded form consciousness without a person ever being aware of its presence. Suppression: refers to the intentional, goal directed exclusion of ideas or memories from awareness.
