Updated AP Myers3e MOD 33
Updated AP Myers3e MOD 33
Updated AP Myers3e MOD 33
“If we remembered
everything, we should on
most occasions be as
ill off as if we remembered
nothing.”
William James
(1842-1910)
The woman who can’t
forget.
~Jill Price
Who was H.M.?
Although studied
throughout his life, Jacopo
Annese and other
scientists at the
University of California,
San Diego’s Brain
Observatory are
preserving Henry
Molaison’s brain for the
benefit of future study.
What are two types of forgetting?
an
inability to form new
memories due to injury or an inability
illness to retrieve information
from one’s past due to
As with H.M., he could injury or illness
recall his past, but not
make new memories.
1. What Would You Answer?
When we process
information, we filter,
alter, or lose much of it.
Why do we forget?
1 encoding failure
2 storage decay
3 retrieval failure
What is encoding failure?
…so, the old ‘stuff’ you …so, the new ‘stuff’ you
learned last month is getting learned this week is making
in the way of the new ‘stuff’ it hard to remember the
you are trying to remember ‘stuff’ you learned a few
now…. months ago…
What are some examples of interference?
retrograde anterograde
amnesia amnesia
proactive retroactive
interference interference
Interpret this graph.
Information
presented in the
hour before sleep
suffers less
retroactive
interference
because the
opportunity for
interfering events
is minimized.
What is motivated forgetting?
Sigmund Freud, a
psychoanalyst, proposed
that forgetting may be due
to repression - the basic
defense mechanism that
banishes from
consciousness anxiety-
arousing thoughts, feelings,
Sigmund Freud and memories.
(1856-1939)
Margaret McKinnon would disagree.
A. 2nd
B. 4th Write down
C. 5th your answer
D. 7th then stay
E. 8th tuned!
What is reconsolidation?