Summary: Memory Construction Errors

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  • Forgetting is what happens when we fail to

    Encode information
    Retrieve information
    Go through storage decay
  • When we fail to encode information we sense

    Encoding failure
  • Failing to access encoded information

    Retrieval Failure
  • Conflicting information reduces memory accuracy

    Interference
  • Often harder to forget traumatic memories

    Intrusion
  • New learning disrupts the recall of old information

    Retroactive Interference
  • At first. information is rapidly forgotten, but the rate of forgetting decreases over time

    Storage Decay
  • The speed of forgetting slows down every time one

    Reviews the information
  • Inability to form new memories after brain injury, but previous memories are intact

    Anterograde Amnesia
  • Inability to recall memories from before a brain injury, but can remember new things and events

    Retrograde Amnesia
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