Transcript Forgetting and Memory Improvement

Forgetting and
Memory Improvement
Recognition vs. Recall
 Recognition: identifying objects or events
that have been encountered before
(multiple choice test)
 Recall: bringing it back to your conscious
mind (essay test)
 Harry Bahrick: the ability to recognize
familiar faces remains strong & lasting
Amnesia
 Severe memory loss caused by brain
injuries, shock, fatigue, illness or
repression
 Dissociative Amnesia: caused by severe
psychological trauma
 Infantile Amnesia: inability to remember
events that occurred during one’s early
years (before age 3)
Amnesia
 Anterograde Amnesia: inability to form
new memories because of a brain
trauma
 Retrograde Amnesia: the failure to
remember events that occurred prior to
physical trauma
Mnemonic Devices
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Improves memory
associate with peg words — something
already stored
make up a story
chunk — acronyms
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