PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Interference Theory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Module 26 forgetting, memory construction, and improving memory. Forgetting and the two-track mind anterograde amnesia inability to form new memories retrograde amnesia inability to retrieve info from the past. Ppl w/ anterograde amnesia are able to learn non-verbal tasks and be classically conditioned: however, they do all these things w/ no awareness of having learned them. Only lost ability to from new explicit memories: automatic processing of implicit memories remained intact. We will never remember what we fail to encode the brain areas that jump into action when young adults encode new info are less responsive in older adults explains age-related memory decline. Once encoded, the course of forgetting is initially rapid, but then levels off w/ time could be due to the gradual fading of the physical memory trace. Motivated forgetting revising our memory is often self-serving repression basic defense mechanism that banishes consciousness anxiety- arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.