PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Temporal Lobe, Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia
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Describe and provide an example of the repeated reproduction technique. Explain schemas and scripts, list the important things they help us do and describe experiments to support those things. Explain the overall effects of schemas and scripts on memory. List and give examples of the 7 sins of memory. Describe the drm procedure and how false memories are formed. Describe source monitoring errors, misinformation effect and implanted memories; provide experimental evidence of each. Explain memory trace replacement hypothesis and provide experimental evidence. Retrograde amnesia: memory loss for events prior to trauma, amnesia, memory loss for events after trauma. Seizures started at 10 years old cause of seizure was never identified. Successfully treated seizures when the medial temporal lobe was removed, his seizure were no more. He was not able to form any new memories. Intelligence, language, personality, and memory for past events relatively intact: complete loss of ability to form new memories, i. e. loss of memory consolidation.
