01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Clive Wearing

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: ESTELLE MAYHEW

Document Summary

It"s an important just as the ability to remember. Forgetting information helps us remember and use the important information. Ebbinghaus" methods of savings: forgetting occurs rapidly over the first few days but then levels off and when you relearn it, you learn it faster. Proactive interference: old information interferes with new information. Retroactive interference: when new information inhibits the ability to remember old information. Blocking: the temporary inability to remember something (tip of the tongue thing) Absentmindedness: the inattentive or shallow encoding of events you know you"re supposed to do or remember something but you don"t. Amnesia: a deficit in long-term memory resulting from disease, brain injury, or psychological in which the person loses the ability to retrieve vast quantities of information. Anterograde amnesia: lose the ability to form new memories. H. m had a classic case of anterograde amnesia; he could remember old information, but after his surgery, he lost the ability to form new memories.