PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Henry Molaison
1 May 2018
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Chapter 7 – Human Memory
• Three Key Processes of Memory
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Levels/ Breakdown/
Characteristics
Structural: how it’s
spelled, how it’s used in a
sentence)
Sensory Memory
Phonemic: how it
sounds/how it’s
pronounced
Short-Term Memory
Semantic: understanding
Long-Term Memory
o )ntention is KEY if you think about learning or memorizing it, you will, if not, you won’t
• Retrieval and Context Cues
o Retrieval cues: different cues/clues that call certain ideas to memory
o Encoding Specificity Principle
▪ Context-Dependent Memory: recreating a situation to elicit memories of the event
▪ State-Dependent Memory: putting yourself in the physical state you were in during a
certain situation in order to elicit memories of the event
• Mood Congruence: putting yourself in the emotion state/mood you were in during
a certain situation in order to elicit memories of the event
o Why do we forget?
▪ Encoding failure
▪ Decay
▪ Interference
▪ Motivation
▪ Amnesia
• Infantile Amnesia: inability to recall accurate memories from early childhood (~2-
3 years old)
• Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory of events before the amnesia-causing event
• Anterograde amnesia: inability to retain memories of events after the amnesia
occurrence, inability to form new memories
• Patient HM: his life became frozen in time after surgeons removed his hippocampus
to cure his seizure disorder. He formed no new memories for the next 55 years.
When he died in 2008, his brain autopsy was live-streamed online.
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Document Summary
Structural: how it"s spelled, how it"s used in a sounds/how it"s. )ntention is key (cid:523)if you think about learning or memorizing it, you will, if not, you won"t(cid:524) Infantile amnesia: inability to recall accurate memories from early childhood (~2- He formed no new memories for the next 55 years. When he died in 2008, his brain autopsy was live-streamed online. Elaborative: best kind, understanding, semantic, linking, imagery, cognitive strategies. Primary effect (recalling digits at the start of a list) Recency effect (recalling digits at the end of a list) Classification of declarative memory: memory, declarative memory system: factual information, semantic memory system: general knowledge, stores, undated (ex: lincoln gave. Gettysburg address: episodic memory system: dated recollections of personal experiences (ex: first. Types of memory kiss: prospective memory: remembering to do something necessary in the future (ex: paying bills, taking medications, retrospective memory: memory of people, words, and events encountered or experienced in the past.
