Psychology
Mr. Plouffe
Korea International School
Module 19: Forgetting and Memory Construction
Name: ___________________________________
Block: ____
As you watch and listen to the lecture fill in the blanks below.
1. When we forget something we do so in one of three areas, they are
a. __________________
b. __________________
c. __________________
2. Before something can become a short term memory we would have had to pay
______________ to it.
3. Our memories are not entirely durable; therefore we will all experience
______________________________.
4. Both the Ebbinghaus curve and the Bahrick curve show us that forgetting is
__________________ rapid, but that it ________________ off.
5. When we know that we know something, and that it is on the tip of our tongue
we are expressing ________________________________.
6. There are two kinds of retrieval failure:
a. Proactive (forward-acting) interference which is when
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________.
b. Retroactive (backward-acting) interference which is when
_________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________.
7. Retroactive interference can be reduced by __________________________.
So going to sleep right after you have just understood well, makes perfect
sense.
8. But old learning can help with new learning, this is called
_________________________________________.
9. One of the reasons we forget is because we don’t want to remember, or what is
called _____________________ in Freudian terms.
10. Frequently people construct memory from things that were not there, but that
they imagined were there, this is called _________________.
11. When a person confuses one element of a story with another totally foreign to
it, that person is engaging in ______________________.
12. Children are not always great witnesses because they inevitably create
memories which may feel real to them, but are actually a
__________________________________________.