01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Source Amnesia

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

Document Summary

Proactive interference: the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. Retroactive interference: the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. Repression: in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. Misinformation effect: incorporating misleading information into one"s memory of an event. Source amnesia: attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (also called source misattribution. ) Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories. Cognition: all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Concept: a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Prototype: a mental image or best example of a category. Algorithm: a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier but also more error-prone.