PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 26: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Vivid Imaginations

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Anterograde amnesia people who remember the past and can"t form new memories. Retrograde amnesia an inability to retrieve information from ones past. Encoding efficiency decreased with age, young adults can encode and remember more than older people. The rate of forgetting drops fast and then levels off over time. Ex: if you learn a language- you will forget most of it within the first year and then it will begin to level off. Most of the time forgotten memories are not faded but they are the ones that have not been retrieved. Sometimes you may feel the answer is on the tip of your tongue but can"t get a clear picture. This is more common in older adults. Retrieval failure can also be caused by information interference and motivated forgetting. Interference as more and more information gets added into the brain, it gets cluttered. If this clutter can be divided into groups then retrieval is easily done.