PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Retrograde Amnesia, Childhood Amnesia, Short-Term Memory
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Lesions on one part of brain to show that one task can be done and the other can"t. Place lesion on other part of brain to show opposite. But not for similar meaning or looking: suppression only if effects are visual and not auditory. Visual will be inhibited because it is has to be converted by loop. Highly familiar concept is rated more similar to itself than one that is less similar (apple = apple more than pomegranate = pomegranate: symmetry- the similarity between two concepts must be the same regardless of the order. She is deaf and blind" : control group was told the story was about carol: only 5% said the person was helen keller, test group was told the story was about helen. Recall- produce a fact from memory explicit. Need to think of word and then check with true list. Recognition- identify an item as being one that you were previously exposed to- explicit.
