PSY 120 Lecture 8: Chapter 10 Notes.docx
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Chapter 10 memory: the capacity to store and retrieve information, often analogous to information processing or a computer based system, many different types of memory involved in processing and remembering our world, reconstructive processes, encoding: mental representation in memory based on information processing, storage: retention of encoded information over time, retrieval: recovery of the stored information at a later time. Memory disorders: alzheimer"s, changes in the brains of patients with alzheimer"s disease include enlargement of the ventricles, severe loss of the cortex in areas involved in language and memory, 13% risk of alzheimer"s after age 65 and 42% risk after age 85, alzheimer"s accounts for 50 60% of memory loss and senility, being physically and cognitively active reduces the risk, amnesia, a failure of memory caused by physical injury, disease, drug use, or psychological trauma, retrograde amnesia forget events leading up to incident, anterograde amnesia forget events that occur after incident, clive wearing is the most severe case ever recorded.
