Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Biological Neural Network, Iconic Memory, Coding Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Alzheimer"s disease (ad): the leading cause of dementia in the elderly, accounting for about 60 percent of senile dementia. Anterograde amnesia: memory loss for events that occur after the initial onset of amnesia. Associative network: the view that long-term memory is organized as a massive network of associated ideas and concepts. Chunking: combining individual items into larger units of meaning. Context-dependent memory: the phenomenon that it is typically easier to remember something in the same environment in which it was originally learned or experienced. Decay theory: the theory that with time and disuse the physical memory trace in the nervous system fades away. Declarative memory: our memory for factual knowledge, which is composed of two sub- categories: knowledge pertaining to personal experience (episodic memory) and knowledge of general facts and language (semantic memory) Dementia: the gradual loss of cognitive abilities that accompanies brain deterioration and interferes with normal functioning.