Amnesia
an inability to retrieve information from one's past
retrograde amnesia
the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
proactive interference
the mind creates reasons to justify your feelings, which causes you to believe false truths unconsciously
confabulations
Gradual increase of the physical memory trace
Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve
an inability to form new memories
anterograde amnesia
the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
retroactive interference
Who did the car wreck experiment
John Palmer and Elizabeth Loftus
an unconscious wall that you build up due to trauma
repression
attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined
source amnesia
If you get someone's name mixed up with another, what kind of interference is that?
proactive interference
Interviewers use words such as "smash" when explaining a car crash for what reason?
To get a better description of the accident
True or False: Looking over vocabulary words only before the test will help you learn/remember them
False: In order to actually learn/remember something, you need to repeat and go over them.