PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Basal Ganglia, Prefrontal Cortex, Long-Term Potentiation
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Rapid loss of memory at rst, then a more gradual decline. Retrograde amnesia: inability to retrieve memory of the past. Anterograde amnesia: inability to form new long-term, explicit memories. Could still learn hoe to get places and could learn new skills. Long-term physical trace in nervous system fades away over time adn with disuse. Tend to see most decay (forgetting) soon after learning. What doesn"t decay tends to stay intact long-term. Sometimes the memory is intact but the associations and links to the memory. May experience tip of the tongue phenomenon. Building multiple associations and links at the time of encoding can help prevent retrieval failure. Information forgotten beacuse other items inltm impair ability to retrieve it. Proactive interference: past materials interferes with recall of newer material. Retroactive interference: new information interferes with ability to recall older information. Choosing to forget or change our memories. Based on the freudian concept of repression.
