Repression
What is repression?
A memory from early childhood amnesia that cannot be retrieved.
What is active suppression?
A theory that explains repression. People may deliberately force themselves to not remember the event
What was Williams 1995?
He tracked down 129 women and sought to see if they remembered their abuse. They did not
What is failure to rehearse?
The inability to perform rehesearal maintenance
Emotional vs less emotional memories which is remembered better?
Emotional memories
How is retrieval bias induced?
Retrieval bias is defined as:
the consequential end result of doing a procedure that makes some information easier to recall than others