proactive interference
the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
retroactive interference
the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
repression
in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
misinformation effect
incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event
source amnesia (source misattribution)
attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. It is the hear of many false memories
rosy retrospection
the tendency to rate past events more positively than they had actually rated them when the event occurred.
hierarchical organization
a design technique that facilitates information organization or aids in decomposing problems from high level concepts to lower level concepts
