PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phase 2, Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia
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Introduce the different major divisions of memory and their relationships with each other. Discuss how situations/context and processing at encoding influence long-term memory. Discuss how situations/context and processing at retrieval influence long-term memory. Key themes: mental representations, what is represented in memory, content vs. Process: what does memory hold vs. what does memory do, bottom-up vs. top-down processing, memory is highly influenced from what we already know (top-down) Evidence for the distinction between explicit and implicit memory systems comes from people. Explicit memories are memories we know we have, whereas implicit memories are memories we suffering from amnesia don"t know we have. Memory loss for events prior to trauma. Trauma can include blood force trauma, a stroke, an operation (physical damage) It is worst for memories that happen close to the trauma, but get better further back in time. Memories do come back; the oldest one comes first. The loss of the ability to form new memories.
