Schacter's Seven Sins of Memory
Study Tips
Effects on Memory
Random
100

forgetting with time; storage decay

Transience

100

conscious repetition of information to be remembered

Rehearsal

100

can remember old events, but not new semantic or episodic info

Anterograde amnesia 

100

the number one contributing cause of wrongful convictions

eyewitness misidentification

200

attention lapses; often results in apparent forgetfulness

Absentmindedness

200

helps organize information 

Mnemonic Devices
200

building new memories

construction

200

memory loss that happens before the actual memory process begins

Encoding failure

300

source of memory is confused; false memory created by you

Misattribution

300

thinking about the meaning of info and applying it to existing knowledge

Elaborative Rehearsal

300

cannot remember events from before incident

Retrograde amnesia

300

when old information hinders the recall of newly learned information

proactive interference

400

"tip of the tongue" phenomenon; have the information but cannot retrieve it

Blocking

400

organize info into manageable pieces

Chunking

400

building up new memories

reconstruction

400

what part of the brain is usually affected for someone with anterograde amnesia

Hippocampus

500

memories continue/pop up when we don't want them to (ex. traumatic events)

Persistence

500

ROYGBIV is an example of

Mnemonic devices

500

after exposure to incorrect information, a person may misremember the original event

Misinformation effect paradigm

500

when information you learned recently hinders the recall of older info

Retroactive Interference

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