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21 Cards in this Set
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Transience |
Impermanence. Fading. Gradually fade over time. |
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forgetting curve (ebbinghaus) |
Shows decline in rate of loss for meaningless material in memory. |
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Absent-mindedness |
You forget because you shifted memory attention elsewhere. |
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Blocking |
One item is an obstacle to accessing and retrieving a other memory. Interference messes it up. |
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Proactive interference |
Part of blocking. Old info prevents you from learning new things. |
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Retroactive interference |
Forgetting new info but remembering old memories. |
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Serial position effect |
You remember terms at the top and bottom of a lost but tent to forget things at the middle. |
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Misattribution |
Remembering memories in the wrong context. Wrong time, place, person. |
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Suggestability |
Memory distortion as a result of deliberate or inadvertent suggestion. |
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Donald Thompson |
Falsely accused of rape due to the sin of misattribution. |
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Misinformation effect |
Distortion of memory by suggestion or misinformation. |
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Loftus and Palmer study |
Two car collision to prove that suggestibility plays a big role in memory recall |
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Fabricated memory |
Creation of false memory |
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Bunny Effect |
Elizabeth loftus experiment involving people having fabricated memories of meeting bugs bunny at Disney world. |
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Recovered memory controversy |
Donna Smith for example was led to remember her dad sexually abused her. |
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"Courage to Heal" |
Book that agrees with forgotten memories. |
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Bias |
One of the sins that beliefs have an impact on memory. |
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Expectancy bias |
Distort memories to for expectations of others. |
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Self consistency bias |
We think we're more consistent with our own beliefs than we actually are. |
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Persistence |
Unwanted memories can't be put out of the mind. |
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Jill Price |
Had a persistent episodic memory. Couldn't forget anything that happened to her. |
