PSYC 280 Study Guide - Autobiographical Memory, Opiate, Latent Learning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 280
• Professor: John Reynolds

Document Summary

Kinds of memory and learning- check fig 17. 17 pg 541 for simple flow chart of the types of memories. Learning: process of acquiring new info; memory: ability to store and retrieve that info. Patient hm: damaged medial temporal lobes;unable to encode new memories suffered amnesia. After doing a mirror-tracing task, his memory improved over 10 trials. Even though he doesn"t remember doing the tasks, his body does, in the form of motor skills. So, the distinction is not between motor and verbal performance, but 2 kinds of memory: Declarative memory: facts and info acquired through learning; memory is assessed declaring/telling. Nondeclarative/procedural memory: memory on perceptual/motor procedures, shown by performance/doing rather than by conscious recollection (eg: mirror tracing, mirror reading, biking, juggling) Retrograde amnesia: loss of memories formed before an event like surgery/trauma. Anterograde amnesia: inability to form new memories after an event. Declarative (larger) memory involved in temporal lobe and diencephalon (thalamus and hypothalamus)