Forget Me Not
Build Me a Memory
Name that Influencer
100

The inability to form new memories

What is anterograde amnesia?

100

Occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading information

What is the misinformation effect?

100

Loves his wife Deborah, can't remember his kids or doctors, hippocampus destroyed by virus

Who is Clive Wearing?

200

An inability to remember information from one's past

What is retrograde amnesia?
200

One reason these might happen is because visualizing something and actually perceiving something activate the same part of the brain

What are false memories?

200

Proposed that we repress painful or socially unacceptable memories

Who is Sigmund Freud?

300

Surgeons accidentally removed his hippocampus, resulting in amnesia

Who is H.M. or Henry Moliason?

300
The sense that "I've experienced this before"

What is deja vu?

300
Identified LTP, won the Nobel Prize, studied learning and memory in California Giant Sea Slugs.

Who is Eric Kandel?

400

We cannot remember what we have not encoded

What is encoding failure?

400

The process by which previously stored memories, when retrieved again, are potentially altered before being stored again

What is reconsolidation?

400

She is a well-known memory researcher who studies false memories

Who is Elizabeth Loftus?

500

When new learning disrupts your recall of old information

What is retroactive (backward-acting) interference?

500
False memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined

What is source amnesia or source misattribution?

500

He identified memory decay by using himself as a case study.

Who was Ebbinghaus?

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