PSY1022 Chapter Notes -Flashbulb Memory, Anterograde Amnesia, Metamemory
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Gradual strengthening of the connections among neurons from repetitive stimulation. Inability to encode new memories from our experiences. Knowledge about our own memory abilities and limitations. Inability of adults to remember personal experiences that took place at an early age. Emotional memory that is extraordinarily vivid and detailed. Lack of clarity about the origin of a memory. Failure to recognise that our ideas originated with someone else. Procedure that encourages patients to recall memories that may/may not have taken place. Creation of fictitious memories by providing misleading info about an event after it takes place. The physical location of a memory in the brain. The neural bases of memory storage: the elusive engram: Memory is distributed around different parts of the brain: long-term potentiation a physiological basis for memory: To tell what cells are responsible for ltp we look at hippocampal responses to stimuli. Lto tends to occur at the synapses.
