PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anterograde Amnesia, Henry Molaison, Temporal Lobe
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Episodic memory is a type of declarative memory. Remembering episodic memories: why some memories are remembered, but some are forgotten. Encoding: taking external information (time of event happening) and then storing it. E2: 3 key factors that affects encoding. How much we attend to the info. How much we practice/rehearse: strengthen encoding process. Encoding and attention: we don"t give full attention, common memory slip is usually due to not paying attention at time of the situation, when attention is divided, encoding will be weaker. Study in which two groups were tested on their memory depending on whether their full attention was given to the memory task or divided attention: typically, full attention group remember more than divided attention. Behavior performance was similar in that people remember more info in the easy condition than the harder condition. Left frontal lobe was more active in easy condition.
