PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Groot, Anterograde Amnesia
7 Mar 2014
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Atkinson and shiffrin- 3 memories (multi-store model of memory): i) ii) Controls the following processes: rehearsal, coding c) decisions d) retrieval strategies. Takes important info from the short term store. Korsakoff patients: patients who suffer from neuron destruction from excessive alcohol intake with poor nutrition. They have good memory of past events but have trouble forming new ones, aka. Anterograde vs. retrograde amnesia: anterograde amnesia means that you cannot form new memories, but can remember old ones. Retrograde means you cannot remember any events that occurred prior to pathology. The man who mistook his wife for a hat (jimmy d): jimmy was born in the. He was in the navy from age 17 to about age 45. He was good at his job and naturally good at math and science- he was a morse code expert. He showed up at a hospital years after being discharged from the navy confused and disoriented.
