PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Little Albert Experiment, Implicit Memory, Reinforcement
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Clive wearing (had herpes encephalitis during flu epidemic which caused severe amnesia) and hm: both had impaired ltm and okay stm. Note: retrograde amnesia (patients have memories before the disorder) is not so common and anterograde amnesia (patients have memories after the disorder) is more common: brain imaging: Experiment: talmi et al: information early on in the list activated areas associated with ltm. Found very little information with the recency effect: types of long term memory, ltm is divided into two main types of memory, declarative (explicit) memory: conscious recollection of events experienced and fact learned. Thus declarative is divided into two sub-categories: episodic: memories of events and past experiences. We have episodic memory as a survival mechanism caused complex brain with multiple systems. Experiment: dr. endel tulving (2005) was interested in different memory systems and how they worked. He was interested into going back in time in our mind and relive information.
