PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Fusiform Face Area, Suggestibility, Interference Theory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Most forgetting occurs because of interference from other information. We can forget because of proactive and retroactive interference. In both cases, competing information displaces the information we are trying to retrieve. Proactive: old information inhibits the ability to remember new information. Retroactive: when new information inhibits the ability to remember old information. Blocking: the temporary inability to remember something that is known. Tip of the tongue phenomenon (brown and macneil) and can be produced in the laboratory (a. brown). It often occurs because of the interference of similar words. Absentmindedness: the inattentive or shallow encoding of events. (groups in the change blindness experiment)there are cultural differences in patterns of attention. Amnesia: a deficit in ltm, resulting from disease, brain injury or psychological trauma. Often occurs from damage to the temporal lobes, sometimes to the thalamus. Korsakoff"s syndrome: long-term alcohol abuse can lead to vitamin deficiencies that result in thalamic changes and subsequently, amnesia.