PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, List Of Memory Biases

• School: EKU, Eastern
• Department: PSY—Psychology
• Course: PSY 200
• Professor: Matthew Moran

Document Summary

Forgetting is an inability to remember: the ability to forget is as important as the ability to remember, normal forgetting helps us remember and use important information. Memory decay: proactive interference: interference that occurs when prior information inhibits the ability to remember new information, retroactive interference: interference that occurs when new information inhibits the ability to remember old information. Blocking: blocking: the temporary inability to remember something. Absentmindedness: absentmindedness: the inattentive or shallow encoding of events. Persistence: persistence: the continual recurrence of unwanted memories, ptsd, most common triggers of ptsd include events that threaten people or close to them, emotional events are associated with amygdala activity. Reducing persistence: contemporary researchers are investigating methods to erase unwanted memories, propranolol blocks postsynaptic receptors for norepinephrine, if given directly after a traumatic event, it lessens the impact. People reconstruct events to be consistent: memory bias: the changing of memories over time so that they become consistent with current beliefs or attitudes.