Types of Memory
Memories pertaining to events that occurred in your life.
What is Autobiographical Memory
Loss and difficulty forming memories after a traumatic event.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The brain's ability to better process events is more effective and accurate if the event is pleasant.
What is the Pollyanna principle?
Memory of the specific circumstances in which you learnt of a major event.
What is Flashbulb Memories?
Loss of memories before a traumatic event.
What is retrograde amnesia?
The tendency for people to rate negative life events more positively as time passes.
What is positivity effect?
What is eyewitness testimony?
What is consistency bias?
Better recall if mood matches the nature of the material being recalled?
What is mood congruence?
Consciously recalled memories.
What is explicit memory?
What is Own-Ethnicity Bias?
Perspective that most memories that are recovered are primarily incorrect memories.
What is the false-memory perspective?
What is Implicit Memory?
The tendency to better remember sources with more positive information.
What is wishful thinking bias?
Perspective that states traumatic memories may be forgotten for years before coming back to consciousness.
What is the recovered-memory perspective?