Amnesia Adventures
This type of amnesia involves the inability to form new memories after brain damage or trauma.
What is anterograde amnesia?
This occurs when the brain cannot retrieve a memory because the necessary cues are missing.
What is retrieval failure?
This occurs when old information interferes with the learning of new information.
What is proactive interference?
This feeling of familiarity in a new situation can occur when there’s a misfire in memory retrieval systems.
What is déjà vu?
This term describes memories that we are consciously aware of and can actively recall.
What is explicit memory?
This type of amnesia results in the inability to recall events that occurred before brain trauma.
What is retrograde amnesia?
This term describes when previously stored information is replaced by new information in short-term memory.
What is displacement?
This happens when new information interferes with the retrieval of old memories.
What is retroactive interference?
This phenomenon occurs when people remember the gist of something but forget its original source.
What is source amnesia?
Forgetting can be beneficial because it allows the brain to prioritize this.
What is important or relevant information?
Both retrograde and anterograde amnesia are caused by damage to this part of the brain.
What is the hippocampus?
Forgetting due to the natural decay of memory traces over time is known as this.
What is decay theory?
Using spaced practice rather than cramming is one way to reduce this type of interference.
What is proactive interference?
This bias causes people to forget uncomfortable memories to protect their self-concept.
What is motivated forgetting?
This model of memory explains that information must move through sensory, short-term, and long-term storage.
What is the multi-store model of memory?