PSYC3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Retrograde Amnesia, Prefrontal Cortex, Confabulation
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Retrograde amnesia can vary from a few years to over 40 years- Recognition memory- a memory test in which participants must decide whether a stimulus was shown on a particular occasion. Recall- participants must produce previously seen stimuli without a full prompt being given. Familiarity- context free memory in which the recognized item just feels familiar. Recollection- context dependent memory that involves remembering specific information from the study episode. In memory tests the most common findings are that recall is the lowest, cued recall is the medium and recognition is the highest proportion of those correctly remembered. Forgetting is important as it is an efficient use of memory rather than a design flaw. Access to previous information needs to be prioritized so that the most relevant information is retrieved- levels of processing account- information that is processed semantically is more likely to be remembered than information that is processed perceptually.
