Amnesia
Measuring Methods
Theories of Forgetting
Theories of Forgetting 2
Miscellaneous
100
Loss of memory of events occurring prior to a traumatic injury.
What is retrograde amnesia?
100
Test of the ability to reproduce information held in memory with only minimal cues available.
What is recall tasks?
100
Also known as motivated forgetting.
What is repression?
100
Also called transience- the theory of forgetting.
What is decay theory?
100
Practicing and repeating something past the point necessary to be able to reproduce it without error.
What is overlearning?
200
Memory loss that extends beyond infancy and into early childhood.
What is childhood amnesia?
200
test of the ability to recognize material held in memory.
What is recognition tasks?
200
Old material interfering with new material you have learned.
What is proactive interference?
200
New material interfering with the old material you have learned.
What is retroactive interference?
200
Says that the time it will take to learn something the second, third, and so on times will be less than the first time.
What is savings method?
300
Makes people have difficulty forming or storing new memories or life experiences.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
multiple choice or matching tests are examples of this kind of memory task.
What is recognition task?
300
Created the "forgetting curve" that modeled how forgetting occurs most rapidly after learning then slows.
Who is Herman Ebbinghaus?
300
When you have the feeling that you know something but cannot quite recall it.
What is tip-of-the-tongue-phenomenon (TOT)?
300
says that spacing practice over time will increase retention better than cramming.
What is massed vs. spaced practice effect?
400
The type of memory that amnesia usually impairs.
What is episodic memory?
400
essays and fill-in-the-blank tests are examples of this kind of memory task.
What is recall task?
400
Tendency to recall items at the beginning and end of a list the best.
What is serial position effect?
400
The tendency to recall items when they are learned last.
What is recency effect?
400
States that forgetting is a failure to access stored memories.
What is retrieval theory?
500
Amnesia caused by psychological causes.
What is dissociative amnesia?
500
A memory task that asks you to recall a series of items in a particular order.
What is serial recall task?
500
Tendency to recall items better when they are learned first.
What is primacy effect?
500
Previous memories interfere with the encoding of new memories or vice versa.
What is interference theory?
500
Facts you learn in school gradually fade over time.
What is decay theory?
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