PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Anterograde Amnesia, Long-Term Potentiation, Memory Consolidation

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Gillian Rowe

Document Summary

Caused by prolonged deficiency of vitamin b. The deficiency leads to the destruction of the areas of the frontal and temporal lobes, which causes severe impairments to memory. Short term memory (stm) and long term memory (ltm) Conversation stm holds the exact wording of the statement; the ability to understand the sentence depends on retrieving, from ltm, the meaning of each of the words that make up the sentence. The distinction between the stm and ltm was studied. Participants were given a list of words to remember. Serial-position curve the memory is better for words in the beginning of the list and in the end of the list. Primacy effect memory for words presented in the beginning of the list. Explanation people had time to rehearse the words and transfer them to ltm; as more words are presented the attention is spread and less rehearsal is possible for later words.