PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychogenic Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Freud: traumatic events are repressed less likely to be remembered. Emotional enhancement - when? two stage process by which events become stored in long-term memory: Encoding (modules 7. 1, 7. 2) immediate (while the event is taking place) consolidation (module 7. 1) slow (in the hours, days, months, even years following the event) Emotional info attracts attention quickly and automatically. Example: oddball test" [i. e. find the face that is different from the other faces. A frowning face among neutral faces is easier to find than smiling among. Adaptive: helps you avoid similar situations in the future. Enhancement: problem sometimes we"d rather forget sin of persistence. Persistence prevention instead of erasing memory, it takes the emotional sting" out of it. Persistence caused by the release of stress hormones during emotional arousal candidate drugs: inhibit release of stress hormones. E. g. beta-adrenergic antagonists, or beta-blockers can be administered pre- or post-encoding.