PSYCH-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Episodic Memory
2 May 2016
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Models of memory: retrograde amnesia: people don"t remember past events. Can form new memories: anterograde amnesia: people can"t form new memories. Can remember what happened a long time ago: potential causes of amnesia: strokes, brain damage, genetics, tumors. William james primary and secondary memory. Different capacities: short-term: limited, long-term: unlimited. Different codes: short-term: stores phonologically, long-term: what matters is what they mean. Neuropsychological evidence: comes from patients with amnesia. Atkinson & shiffrin"s (1968) modal model of memory. Specific memory of an episode from our life. Active platform where you bring different pieces of information but it is limited. Either this information will disintegrate or it will be passed on to long-term. You have a certain memory but you don"t know that you know it. Motor memories (you know how to get somewhere but you don"t know how to explain it) Retrograde amnesia: impaired memory for events prior to brain injury. Anterograde amnesia: impaired memory for event following brain injury.
