Psychology Terms and Conditions

Psychology: Lesson 42- Forgetting

Key Terms:

1. Forgetting: Can be defined as the inability to retrieve information from memory, depending on the circumstances, forgetting can be a slight irritation, some memories are particularly resistant forgetting, while others seems irretrievable no matter how hard we try. Chronic forgetfulness or forgetting amounts of information, however, can be symptoms of disease, such as Alzheimer or amnesia.

2. Proactive Interference: According to interference theory, memories stored in similar categorizes tend to interfere with each other, sometimes then retrieval failure may be due to the disruptive effects of previous memories on the recall of new information

3. Retroactive Interference: In this case, the new learning may have a disruptive effect on the recall of old information, a phenomenon, when you forget due to retroactive interference, the French words seem to block the access to the Spanish words that you learned.

4. Similarity and Meaning: specifically, the greater the similarity between two sets of materials, French and Spanish versus French and History, the greater the interference between them. Also, meaningless are subject to interference to a larger extent than meaningful materials.

5. Motivated Forgetting: We mean the process through which people forget things and events because they do not want to remember them.

6. Repression: Is a defense mechanism where people push through threatening thoughts, memories, and feelings out of conscious awareness. This process is largely subconscious, so individuals are generally not aware of the forgetting process.

Lesson 43- Improving Memory:

Key Terms:

7. Memory Construction: We mean the process through which we construct our memories using both stored and new information. When trying to remember something, we often have to bring together different pieces of information, fill information gaps and integrate different types of materials. People...