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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)

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Forgetting and Memory Improvement

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  1. Forgetting and Memory Improvement

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. Mnemonic Devices • Improves memory • associate with peg words — something already stored • make up a story • chunk — acronyms • ROYGBIV • Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally • 30 Days Has September, April, June & November

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