WorksheetsPsychology: Why do we forget?
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is forgetting?
Failure to understand
failure to retrieve information that was previously available
¨loss¨ of information
the ability to retain information
What is encoding failure?
A process where the information was never encoded into LTM
When your computer doesn't work correctly
Where memories aren't recalled correctly
When the synapses can't fully connect to form a full memory
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
A man who pioneered the discovery of nonsense syllables
A scientist that created the Skinner Box
The guy that invented weinerschnitzel
A German Psychologist that founded the curve of forgetting, a pioneer of the study of memory
The theory that memory retrieval fails due to normal metabolic processes over time that occur in the brain is...
Proactive Theory
Decay Theory
Metabolic Theory
Encoding Theory
Deja Vu can be explained by...
triggers of sensations previously experienced create the feeling of familiarity with unfamiliar situations
psychic powers
memory in the subconscious that was previously repressed is now available
neural pathways cross ways and create a feeling that you have experienced this before
Forgetting in which a new memory interferes with remembering an old memory (backward memory interference) is...
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
Forgetting in which an old memory interferes with remembering a new memory (forward acting memory) is...
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
Motivated forgetting that occurs unconsciously, a memory that is blocked and unavailable to the consciousness
Repression
Suppression
Motivated forgetting that occurs consciously, a deliberate attempt to not think about and remember specific information is...
Suppression
Repression
What is prospective memory?
Remembering to do something in the future
Thinking
Inability to remember to do something in the future
Is memory loss and forgetting, the same thing?
True
False
What is source memory ?
Remembering your sources
Memory for when, where and how, of a particular experience or piece of info. acquired
Memory of who, what, and when,, of a particular experience or piece of info. acquired
Forgetting to do your homework
What is the Curve of Forgetting?
How information is lost overtime if there is no attempt to retain it
When you lose information after not attempting to retain it
Losing your memory when you get old
Some random thing Mrs.Spahn and Ms. Schneebeli talked about
