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Psychology
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10/24/2012

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Term
proactive interference
Definition
the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info
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retroactive interference
Definition
the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info
Term
repression
Definition
The basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts,feeling and memories
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misinformation effect
Definition
incorporating misleading info into one's memory of an event.
Term
Source amnesia
Definition
attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.
Term
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Definition
a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.
He was also the first person to describe the learning curve.
Wrote Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
Also documented the serial position effect.
Experiement= Maintenance rehearsal with “nonsense syllables
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Elizabeth Loftus
Definition
- American cognitive psychologist
- work on the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory
-creation and nature of false memories,[4] including recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
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George Miller
Definition
-He tested immediate memory via tasks such as asking a person to repeat a set of digits presented; absolute judgment by presenting a stimulus and a label, and asking them to recall the label later
- span of attention by asking them to count things in a group.
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