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| the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info |
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| the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info |
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| The basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts,feeling and memories |
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| incorporating misleading info into one's memory of an event. |
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| attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. |
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a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.
He was also the first person to describe the learning curve.
Wrote Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
Also documented the serial position effect.
Experiement= Maintenance rehearsal with “nonsense syllables |
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- American cognitive psychologist
- work on the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory
-creation and nature of false memories,[4] including recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse |
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-He tested immediate memory via tasks such as asking a person to repeat a set of digits presented; absolute judgment by presenting a stimulus and a label, and asking them to recall the label later
- span of attention by asking them to count things in a group. |
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