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Psychology 130
Memory Vocab
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04/12/2021

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Sigmund Freud is famous for inventing and developing the
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technique of psychoanalysis; for articulating the psychoanalytic theory of motivation, mental illness, and the structure of the subconscious; and for influencing scientific and popular conceptions of human nature by positing that both normal and abnormal thought
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ALFRED BINET (1857–1911)  

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“Some recent philosophers have given their moral approval to the deplorable verdict that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, one which cannot be augmented. We must protest and act against this brutal pessimism” (Binet, 1909, p. 141).
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Proactive interference

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(pro=forward) occurs when you cannot learn a new task because of an old task that had been learnt.
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Retroactive interference
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(retro=backward) occurs when you forget a previously learnt task due to the learning of a new task.
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Anterograde.

 

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directed forward in a time of or denoting a type of amnesia involving an inability to remember any new information.

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Retroactive

 

 

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extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past especially: made effective as of a date prior to enactment, promulgation, or imposition retroactive tax.
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Retrograde

 

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directed or moving backward.
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Encoding

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is defined as the initial learning of information; storage refers to maintaining information over time; retrieval is the ability to access information when you need it.
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Encoding Failure

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Refers to the brain's occasional failure to create a memory link.

 

Encoding refers to the brain's ability to store and recall events and information, either short or long-term. This faculty can fail for a number of reasons; trauma or substance use being the most common.

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The misinformation effect occurs

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when a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information. 
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Reconsolidation

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is the process of previously consolidated memories being recalled and actively consolidated. It is a distinct process that serves to maintain, strengthen and modify memories that are already stored in the long-term memory.
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Source Amnesia

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is the inability to remember where, when, or how previously learned information has been acquired while retaining the factual knowledge. This branch of amnesia is associated with the malfunctioning of one's explicit memory.
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amnesia

 

 

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unable to form mew memories, unanle to recal, unable to remember your early years
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interference

 

 

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old material conflicts with new material
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repression

 

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your forget cause there painful

Repression is the psychological attempt to direct one's own desires and impulses toward pleasurable instincts by excluding them from one's consciousness and holding or subduing them in the unconscious.

 

 

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Motivated forgetting
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is a theorized psychological behavior in which people may forget unwanted memories, either consciously or unconsciously.
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decay/extinction

 

 

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fading away
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 Anterograde

 

 

 

 

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unable to form new memories

 

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Retrograde

 

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unable to recall old memories

 

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Infantile

 

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unable to remember your early years
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Progressive memory loss

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is a symptom of dementia. Other symptoms include difficulty with reasoning, judgment, language, and thinking skills. People with dementia can also exhibit behavioral problems and mood swings.

 

The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as retrieval. This would be similar to finding and opening a paper you had previously saved on your computer's hard drive.

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Retention

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or educational usage refers to a person's ability to retain and use information. This ability is imperative in learning a new skill.
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Rehearsal
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in educational psychology refers to the "cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a possible way of learning and remembering it"
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