2.7 Memory Problems

What is the term for an inability to form new memories?

• Retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Source amnesia

• Repression

Which type of interference involves older learning disrupting the recall of new information?

• Retroactive interference

• Proactive interference

• Reconsolidation

• Misinformation effect

What is the basic defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts from consciousness?

• Reconsolidation

• Repression

• Deja Vu

• Source amnesia

Which term describes the phenomenon when a memory is corrupted by misleading information?

• Misinformation effect

• Retrograde amnesia

• Proactive interference

• Deja Vu

What is the term for faulty memory regarding how, when, or where information was learned or imagined?

• Anterograde amnesia

• Source amnesia

• Retroactive interference

• Reconsolidation

Which type of amnesia involves an inability to remember information from one’s past?

• Anterograde amnesia

• Retrograde amnesia

• Source amnesia

• Deja Vu

What is the process called when previously stored memories, upon retrieval, may be altered before being stored again?

• Reconsolidation

• Repression

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

If a student learns a new phone number and then has trouble recalling their old phone number, which memory phenomenon is this an example of?

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

• Source amnesia

• Repression

A person feels a strange sense that they have experienced a current situation before, even though they know they have not. What is this feeling called?

• Reconsolidation

• Deja Vu

• Misinformation effect

• Retrograde amnesia

A witness to a car accident later recalls seeing broken glass at the scene after being asked, "Did you see the broken glass?" even though there was none. Which memory phenomenon does this illustrate?

• Source amnesia

• Misinformation effect

• Repression

• Proactive interference