PSY-2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Semantic Memory
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Memory is a process of obtain information and keep it and remember it. (30 seconds) Explicit memory: person remember information from his memory. recall. Implicit memory: memory based on experience like the road to the local store. The color of the haitian flag, number of letter in the alphabet. Once you learn something you do not to relearn them. Like earthquake, 9/11, marriage. direct : ask them. Priming: previous exposure to a stimulus affects its subsequent processing. Anterograde amnesia; remember but can"t form new memory after the injury. Retrograde amnesia; can"t not remember past memory before the injury but can form new memory. Mere-exposure effect: list of names read weeks apart. Mnemonic devices : put into sentence ( please excuse my dear ant sally) Context- dependent memory: recall best where the same room in which material learnt. State dependent memory: remember when we are are in the same state that thing happen ( mad, happy, drunk)