Forgetting Curve
Ebbinghaus
Three-stage processing model
sensory, working, long-term
If a person is unable to remember anything new moving forward from an injury, which type of amnesia are they experiencing?
antegrade
False recall
misinformation effect
forgetting what occurs with the passage of time
transcience
Memory Processing Model
Atkinson-Shiffrin
process of remembering
encoding, storage, retrieval
George was in a car accident. He cannot recall what type of car he drives.
Retrograde amnesia
Middle school was great
Rosy retrospection
If you hadn’t said XYZ, I would be able to remember. (interference)
Blocking
Working Memory Model (Central Executive)
Baddeley
Steep drop followed by a gradual decline
Forgetting curve
Sigmund fell rock climbing. He remembers his pet dog but he can't recall what he ate today.
Anterograde
Bread, Milk, S____P, Egg
Towel, Shower S____, Shampoo
Priming effect
“The guy had an earring, remember?” You now remember an earring even though there wasnt one
Suggestibility
7 plus or minus 2
George Miller
primacy-asymptote-recency
serial position effect
Carl got a new parking spot at work. He's having trouble finding it
proactive interference
First and last
Serial position effect
Misplacing your keys
absent-minded
concept of repression
Freud
Three stages of the central executive model
phonological loop, episodic buffer, visuospatial sketchpad
James can no longer remember how to write in cursive because he's printed for the last 10 years.
retroactive interference
distributed practice
spacing effect
One’s personal feelings about a situation literally change their memory
Bias