PSYC32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anterograde Amnesia, Long-Term Memory, Prospective Memory
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1)cognition - information handling receptive functions: sensory reception (arousal process) and perception (active processing, agnosias: disorders of recognition (impaired perceptual integration) Stages of memory processing: registration or sensory memory neither strictly a memory nor a perceptual function. 2a) immediate memory (working memory) holds about 7 +/- 2 bits of information at a time. Neuropsyc test: cvlt learning trials (can you recall a list of words: consolidation storing information as long term memory, long term memory (retrieval, which implies consolidation was successful, recognition (less effortful; implies learning and consolidation) Expressive functions: expressive functions, such as speaking, drawing or writing, manipulating, physical gestures, facial expressions, or movements, make up the sum of observable behavior, mental activity is inferred from them. Wisconsin card sorting test helps test their ability to respond to feedback: apraxia: disturbances of purposeful expressive functions (ex: reaching for an object, constructional disorders: disturbances in formulating activities (assembling, drawing, etc)
