PSY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brenda Milner, Long-Term Memory, Explicit Memory
17 Nov 2016
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9/11) rehearsal: repeating something over and over in your head to remember it antero: going forward retro: beforehand amnesia: the forgetting of events. Dr. skoville removed henry"s entire hippocampus to reduce epileptic seizures. It worked, but he could not remember a single declarative memory after the surgery. This is because without the hippocampus, he was unable to consolidate short term memories into long term ones. Skoville felt guilt and stopped working with henry, but his assistant brenda milner worked with him for over thirty years after. Stages in the formation and retrieval of memory: Retrieval: recalling stored information in response to some cue. George miller: serial position effect the capacity you can hold in short term memory. 7 items, +/- two items (studies show today the average is closer to five) Method of loci: associating items with places while physically walking a familiar route (ex. on the way to the grocery store, remembering the bank as bananas)
