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Forgetting and Improving Memory - Coggle Diagram
Forgetting and Improving Memory
Amnesia
Anterograde Amnesia
commonly caused by brain trauma, such as a blow to the head.
you cannot remember new information, although you can remember information and events that happened prior to your injury (hippocampus affected)
Retrograde Amnesia
loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma.
Memory Construction and Reconstruction
The formulation of new memories is sometimes called construction, and the process of bringing up old memories is called reconstruction
as we retrieve our memories, we also tend to alter and modify them
Suggestibility
Suggestibility describes the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.
The Misinformation Effect
after exposure to incorrect information, a person may misremember the original event.
false memory syndrome
Recall of false autobiographical memories is
Forgetting
to loss of information from long-term memory.
Sometimes memory loss happens before the actual memory process begins, which is encoding failure.
Transience - Accessibility of memory decreases over time
absentmindedness - Forgetting caused by lapses in attention
Blocking - Accessibility of information is temporarily blocked
memory-enhancing strategies
rehearsal, or the conscious repetition of information to be remembered
chunking: you organize information into manageable bits or chunks
elaborative rehearsal: a technique in which you think about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory
Mnemonic devices are memory aids that help us organize information for encoding
expressive writing and saying words aloud.