AP Psychology / Unit 2: Cognition
2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges
Notes
- Forgetting curve (Ebbinghaus): fast early loss.
- Proactive interference: old info blocks new. Retroactive: new blocks old.
- Anterograde amnesia (can't form new memories); retrograde (lose old ones).
- Misinformation effect, source amnesia, imagination inflation.
Practice
Learning Spanish makes it harder to remember French you learned earlier. This is:
New interferes with old.
A witness's memory changes after hearing a leading question. This is the:
Memory is reconstructive.
Being unable to form new memories after an injury is:
Forward-going.
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