CAS PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Source Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Ira Wells

Document Summary

Normal forgetting helps us retain and use important info. Methods of savings: to examine how long it took people to relearn lists of nonsense syllables. ~forgetting occurs rapidly over the first few days but then levels off. ~learning something for the second time will be easier and take less time. ~the difference between the original learning and relearning is called savings. ~you save time and effort because of what you remember. Proactive interference: old info inhibits ability to remember new info. Retroactive interference: new info inhibits ability to remember old info. Amnesia lose vast quantities of info form long-term memory. Results from disease, brain injury, or psychological trauma. Retrograde amnesia people lose past memories for events, facts, people, and personal info. Anterograde amnesia people lose ability to form new memories. Memory bias the changing of memories over time so they become consistent with current beliefs or attitudes.