PSY 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychogenic Amnesia, False Memory Syndrome, Childhood Amnesia
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Motivated forgetting force yourself to forget or not. When confronted with reminders of unwanted thoughts, people can regulate their feelings by intentionally controlling memory: these processes can lead to forgetting. The woman who could not forget jill price. These methods can also be effective for emotional memories: if you can get people intentionally forgetting aspects we do have ability to do that, other people like jill price can"t forget and comes back again. Recovery of forgotten memories can sometimes be possible, with the: passage of time, spontaneous recovery occurs when inhibition is released following extinction, repeated efforts to recall, even when attempts have failed, hypermnesia and reminiscence can even reverse. Ebbinghaus"s forgetting curve: amnesia lack of memory, hypermnesia - we get to remember things a whole lot better. Reverse ebbinghaus"s curve we get: using appropriate cues reminiscence bump, context reinstatement.
