PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Anterograde Amnesia, Childhood Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia
1 Dec 2020
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Forgetting tends to occur more rapidly at first, then slows down: most of forgotten information occurs right away, then only a little forgotten over rest of time. Encoding failure information was never encoded into long term memory. Decay theory proposes that with time and disuse, the physical memory trace in the nervous system fades: problem in prediction that longer intervals of disuse cause increased decay of information. Reminiscence phenomenon where more material is recalled during. Motivated forgetting motivational processes (e. g. repression) may protect us by blocking the recall of anxiety-arousing memories. Retrograde amnesia: memory loss for events that occurred prior to the onset of amnesia. Anterograde amnesia: memory loss for events that occur after the initial onset of amnesia. Infantile amnesia: memory loss for events that occurred during the first few years of our lives. Prospective memory: concerns remembering to perform an activity in the future, people with better retrospective memory don"t have better prospective memory.
