Psychology

40. Interference theory holds that people forget information because of competition from other material. Proactive interference occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information, while retroactive interference occurs when new information impairs the retention for previously learned information.

41. Sigmund Freud discussed the idea of repressed memories, or memories so painful that people are motivated to forget them, I believe this cant really happen because in the process of trying to forget them you are still thinking about in result of thinking about it they are still there. The disorder where people forget important things about their identity and memory is called amnesia.

42. Rehearsal in memory is the process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about the information. Information that gets processed without us even being aware of it is automatic processing. While information you have to focus on in order to process it properly is called effortful processing.

43. Mnemonic Devices are methods, tricks really, that we all use to help us remember lists of items. For example in math to remember the order operations go the use “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” standing for parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.

44. Memories can also be reinstated by context cues. It’s easier to recall long-forgotten events if you return after a number of years to a place where you used to live.

45.Memories are reconstructions of the past, which may not be entirely accurate. Research shows that reconstructions can be influenced by new information, which is the misinformation effect. The effect is best explained in part by the unreliability of source monitoring, which is the process of making attributions about the origins of memories. Also, research indicates that forgetting can be related to encoding, storage, or retrieval processes. Much forgetting may only look like forgetting;...