PY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Implicit Memory, Prospective Memory, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 105
• Professor: Scrivner- Limbaugh

Document Summary

Anterograde amnesia: a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event. Retrograde amnesia: a loss of ability to remember memories before the event. Retroactive interference: the tendency of later learning to hinder the memory of previously learned material. Proactive interference: the tendency of previously learned material to hinder subsequent learning. Working memory: is an active process, integrating different types of information such as ideas, sounds, and images. Cryptomnesia: refers to misattributing someone else"s idea as one"s own. Source attribution: is the inability to recall where information was learned. Misattribution of memory: refers to the ability to remember information correctly, but being wrong about the source of that information. State-dependent learning: refers to how similar internal states during encoding and retrieval enhance memory retrieval: experiencing a calm state during encoding but an anxious state during retrieval interferes with memory.