MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
Hello! My name is Dr Aalap Asurlekar, and I am a psychiatry trainee in the UK. I created MRCPsych on the Go to make revision for the MRCPsych exams easier to fit around busy clinical work.
This podcast is designed for psychiatry trainees preparing for Paper A, B, CASC but also, medical students. Each episode focuses on key syllabus topics and explains them in clear, structured language to help you understand and retain the most important concepts.
Topics range from psychopathology, psychopharmacology, neuroscience, sociology, behavioral science, psychological therapies to clinical assessment. Episodes include exam style questions and clinical scenarios to support active recall and exam preparation.
The aim is to provide focused, high yield psychiatry revision you can listen to during commutes, walks or between shifts.
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MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
11. Why We Forget: Memory Distortion, Interference and Schemas
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Eyewitness testimony has sent innocent people to prison. Memory is not a recording. It is a story we tell ourselves, and that story can be wrong.
In this episode, we explore why forgetting happens and how memories become distorted. We cover Hermann Ebbinghaus and the forgetting curve, proactive and retroactive interference, and the role of schemas in shaping and distorting what we remember. These ideas have important implications for memory disorders in psychiatry and for understanding false memories.
Ideal for MRCPsych Part A revision, psychology students and anyone curious about the unreliability of human memory. Aligned with the Royal College of Psychiatrists MRCPsych Part A syllabus, paragraph 1.1.4.