Module 27 Forgetting and Memory Construction

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Module 27Forgetting and Memory Construction
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Forgetting

• Encoding Failure
• Storage Decay
• Retrieval Failure
• Interference
• Motivated Forgetting

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Forgetting as Encoding Failure
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Test Your Memory
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Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
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The Forgetting Curve for Spanish Learned in School
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Retrieval Failure
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Proactive and Retroactive Interference
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Retroactive Interference
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Why Do We Forget?
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Memory Construction

• Misinformation and Imagination Effects
• Source Amnesia
• Discerning True and False Memories
• Childrens Eyewitness Recall
• Repressed or Constructed Memories of Abuse?

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Memory Construction
Depiction of Actual Accident
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Memory Construction
Constructed Memory
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Eyewitness Recollections
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