PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Anterograde Amnesia, Tuffet, Recovered-Memory Therapy

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 341
• Professor: Mauner Gail

Document Summary

Evidence for separate procedural and declarative memory systems: dissociation logic. Selective disruption of one type of memory while another type is left intact in the same individual: example in textbook. Two types of amnesia: anterograde amnesia systems. Ca(cid:374)"t lea(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:374)e(cid:449) se(cid:373)a(cid:374)ti(cid:272) and episodi(cid:272) i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) 50 first dates, memento: retrograde amnesia. Memory loss for prior events (episodes) and previously learned general information. Tv soap operas: declarative memory is impaired while procedural memory intact in both types of amnesia. Means that info encoded well enough to be written down, but no memory of what was written. Thus, problem was not one of encoding/working memory but of storage or retrieval: hm. Hippocampus removed bilaterally @ 29 years old. Normal active memory spam: working memory okay. But, apparently no new semantic or episodic info added to ltm (this is an overgeneralization) Co(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) o(cid:374) soap ope(cid:396)as, (cid:271)ut it"s (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:396)a(cid:396)e i(cid:374) (cid:396)eal life. Profound episodic memory defi(cid:272)its fo(cid:396) (cid:862)old(cid:863) i(cid:374)fo.