Freud’s psychodynamictherapies

There are 3 main parts of the paper:
a. the concept and its definition (paragraph 1) b. if you agree or disagree with the concept, why, and argument (paragraph 2) c. your own observation of this in your real own personal life (paragraph 3) For example: from Leandro Ribeiro
a. According to Essentials of Psychology, long-term memory is not forgotten through the passage of time, but through a concept called interference. Interference is when certain memories make it harder to remember other memories. There are two kinds of interference, retroactive and proactive. Retroactive interference is when new information interferes with the memory of old information. Proactive interference is when older information works against remembering new information.
b. Although this theory has some controversy over it, I agree with it. In Essentials of Psychology, it states that in a study, college students were asked to remember a list of words either before bed or in the morning. The college kids who were asked to remember the list of words during the day did not remember the words as well as those that were asked to remember the words at night (Franzoi, 2014, p. 313). McLeod (2008) states that “the majority of research into the role of interference in forgetting has been carried out in a laboratory using lists of words, a situation which is likely to occur fairly infrequently in everyday life (i.e. low ecological validity). As a result, it may not be possible to generalize from the findings.” However, Franzoi gives another example of interference, and says that accidentally calling one’s boyfriend or girlfriend by their past partner’s name is an instance of proactive interference (p. 313). This example can be found in everyday life, unlike memorizing a list of words.
c. In my personal life, I have experienced both retroactive and proactive interference. One example of proactive interference I’ve experienced is in my classes. Sometimes when I write papers and a professor wants me to write using a certain style or technique, I mistakenly use the style/technique that a past professor required in my previous classes. From my day-to-day life, I can think of some instances of retroactive interference. One example is when I was younger and moved from my home in Queens to an apartment in Manhattan. I was able to memorize my new address easily, but to this day I can’t recall my first home’s address, since the new one replaced it.