forgetting / oubli
Synonyms: forgetfulness, oblivescence, oblivion, obliviscence
Group: Nonhuman animal, Human, Psychology, Thematic grouping Memory and Law
Groupe : Animal non humain, Homme, Psychologie, Regroupement thématique Mémoire et justice
Definition: "Forgetting is defined as the lack of availability, partial or total, temporary or permanent, of memories of lived events or of information previously encountered, processed or learned." (Della Sala & Cubelli, 2021, p. 157).
Définition : « L'oubli est défini comme le manque de disponibilité, partiel ou total, temporaire ou permanent, des souvenirs d'événements vécus ou d'informations précédemment rencontrées, traitées ou apprises. » (Della Sala & Cubelli, 2021, p. 157).
Broader term: memory phenomenon
Terme générique : phénomène de la mémoire
Narrower terms: incidental forgetting, motivated forgetting
Termes spécifiques : oubli incident, oubli motivé
Related terms: temporal distinctiveness hypothesis, forgetting curve, simultaneous learning effect, category-specific semantic deficit, pure progressive amnesia, retrograde amnesia, mnemic neglect, inhibition, location updating effect, proactive interference, retroactive interference, crime-related amnesia, Jost's laws, severely deficient autobiographical memory, medial prefrontal cortex, simulated amnesia, transient epileptic amnesia, responsible remembering, output interference, source amnesia, anterograde amnesia, confabulation, trace decay hypothesis, estimator variable, interference, contextual fluctuation, accelerated long-term forgetting, response competition, developmental dysmnesia, self-limiting process, topographical memory loss, reproductive inhibition, functional amnesia, omission error, cue-overload principle, amnesia
Termes associés : hypothèse de la distinctivité temporelle, courbe d’oubli, effet de l'apprentissage simultané, déficit sémantique spécifique à une catégorie, amnésie progressive pure, amnésie rétrograde, négligence mnésique, inhibition, effet de mise à jour de la localisation, interférence proactive, interférence rétroactive, amnésie du crime, lois de Jost, mémoire autobiographique sévèrement déﬁcitaire, cortex préfrontal médian, amnésie feinte, amnésie épileptique transitoire, mémoire responsable, interférence en sortie, amnésie de la source, amnésie antérograde, confabulation, hypothèse du déclin de la trace, variable d’estimation, interférence, fluctuation contextuelle, oubli à long terme accéléré, compétition des réponses, dysmnésie développementale, processus auto-limitant, perte de la mémoire topographique, inhibition reproductive, amnésie fonctionnelle, erreur d'omission, principe de la surcharge de l'indice, amnésie
Has models: retrieval accuracy from fragmented traces model
Has theories: acid bath theory
Has study methods: Cognitive failures questionnaire, Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire, list-method directed forgetting paradigm, Don't remember/Don't know paradigm, think/no-think paradigm, Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire, saving method, autobiographical think/no-think task, thought substitution method, item-method directed forgetting paradigm, selective directed forgetting paradigm, Everyday Memory Questionnaire, Brown-Peterson task
Selected bibliography: Davis, R. L., & Zhong, Y. (2017). The biology of forgetting—A perspective. Neuron, 95(3), 490–503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.05.039 [Study type: literature review / Access: open], Sala, S. D. (Ed.). (2010). Forgetting. Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851647 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Della Sala, S., & Cubelli, R. (2021). Definition: Forgetting. Cortex, 136, 157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.12.013 [Study type: conceptual analysis / Access: open], Della Sala, S., Baddeley, A., Peng, N., & Logie, R. (2024). Assessing long-term forgetting: A pragmatic approach. Cortexn 170, 80-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.009 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Eysenck, M. W., & Groome, D. (Eds.). (2020). Forgetting: Explaining memory failure. SAGE Publications Ltd. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Moreno, A. (2021). Molecular mechanisms of forgetting. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(8), 6912–6932. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14839 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Radvansky, G. A., Doolen, A. C., Pettijohn, K. A., & Ritchey, M. (2022). A new look at memory retention and forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(11), 1698–1723. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001110 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Ryan, T. J., & Frankland, P. W. (2022). Forgetting as a form of adaptive engram cell plasticity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00548-3 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Wixted, J.T. (2004). The psychology and neuroscience of forgetting. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 235-269. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141555 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Wixted, J. T. (2022). Absolute versus relative forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(12), 1775‑1786. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001196 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]