Psychology 1000 Lecture : Psych1000- Chapter 8 Memory.doc

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Erica Lawson

Document Summary

Hippocampus and surrounding brain tissue removed to reduce his epileptic seizures. Operation successful, but left hm with amnesia. Can discuss childhood, teens, and early twenties. Forgotten some events that occurred within the two year prior to surgery. Lost the ability to form new memories. He cannot remember new facts, nor retain the meaning of words that have entered the english language since his operation. Once an experience leaves his immediate train of though he cannot remember it. Depart for a couple minutes, he will not recognize you. Forgets his favourite uncle died, and has relearned it and experienced the grief many times over again. Memory: refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Ebbinghaus- rate at which new information is forgotten. Galton- investigated peoples memories for personal events. Encoding refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes.