PSY372H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Childhood Amnesia, Neurogenesis
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Childhood amnesia: the growing of the new neuron displaces the childhood memory, thus we don"t remember that much in our childhood. They were told to remember some words and meanwhile forgot somehting. Memory for those they were told to forget they have worse memory than the items they were asked to remember. This showed that we can actively forget information. Part-set cuing: harder to retrieve the item in that set when participants have already been given some item from the set as the retrieval cues. They asked you to retrieve all the subway on line one while you were given some stops in that line. Those given station might inhibit your retrieval plan. Remembering one thing makes remembering related things harder because of the associative interference. Negative priming, if you inhibited something by trying to forget about it or thinking about something that is related to it, its inhibited, not compete, access to that item will be slower later.
